[Footnote 371: The Chaillot tradition, which is found in the MS. _Histoire chronologique de tout l'ordre de la Visitation_, 1693 (Bib. Mazarine, MS. 2436), and in _La Vie de la très haute et très puissante Princesse Henrietta Marie de France, reine de la Grande Bretagne_, of Cotolendi, who derived much of his information from the Chaillot nuns, places the scene of Henrietta's reception of the news of her husband's death in the Carmelite convent, and Cotolendi represents the King's letter as delivered on that occasion; but, Father Cyprien, in his account, says that the Queen was at the Louvre when she heard of her husband's fate, and though he is not always accurate, it seems probable that the scene of such an event would remain in his mind. Moreover, Madame de Motteville says no word of the Carmelite convent in this connection. It seems likely that the nuns of Chaillot confused the Queen's account of the reception of the news of her husband's death with that of his last letter. The above account has been written on this hypothesis; the letter which Cotolendi quotes was no doubt preserved with other memorials of the Queen among the Chaillot archives.] [Footnote 372: John Ward: _Diary_, 1648-79 (1839), p. 161.] [Footnote 373: "Exhortation de la Pucelle d'Orléans à tous les princes de la terre de faire une Paix générale tous ensemble pour venger la mort du roy d'Angleterre par une guerre toute particulière. A Paris. MDCXLIX."] [Footnote 374: Fonds Français MS., 12,159. _Remonstrances aux Parlementaires de la mort ignominieuse de leur roy dédiées a la Reyne d'Angleterre._] [Footnote 375: The same argument is developed in a curious tract, which shows the rather cool attitude of some of the English Catholics to Charles, entitled, _Nuntius a Mortuis, hoc est, stupendum ... ac tremendum colloquium inter Manes Henrici VIII et Caroli I Angliae Regum_ (1649).] [Footnote 376: MS. Français, 12,159.] [Footnote 377: Henrietta, even before the lesson of her husband's death, urged the Queen-Regent to show moderation. She prevailed upon her to receive the members of the rebellious Parliament on the day of Barricades.] [Footnote 378: "Vous diriés que Dieu veut humilier les Roys et les princes. Il a commencé par nous en Engleterre; je le prie que la France ne nous suive pas, les affairs ysy alant tout le mesme chemin que les nostres."--_Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa soeur Christine_, p. 100.] [Footnote 379: "Le veritable entretien de la Reyne d'Angleterre avec le roy et la Reyne à S. Germain-en-Laye en presence de plusieurs Seigneurs de la Cour et autres personnes de consideration (1652)."] [Footnote 380: It was this nobleman of whom Charles I said that he had no religion at all.] [Footnote 381: _Nicholas Papers_, I, 293.]