History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 1Baird, Henry Martyn
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History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 1
Baird, Henry Martyn
Huguenots
[Footnote 349: The real message sent by Francis I. to his mother, after
the disaster of Pavia, was quite another thing from the traditional
sentence: "Tout est perdu sauf l'honneur." What he wrote was: "Madame,
pour vous avertir comme je porte le ressort de mon infortune, de toutes
choses ne m'est demeuré que l'honneur _et la vie sauve_," etc. Papiers
d'État du Card, de Granvelle, i. 258. It is to be feared that, if saved
in _Italy_, his honor was certainly lost in _Spain_, where, after vain
attempts to secure release by plighting his _faith_, he deliberately
took an _oath_ which he never meant to observe. So, at least, he himself
informed the notables of France on the 16th of December, 1527: "Et
voulurent _qu'il jurast; ce qu'il fist, sachant ledict serment n'estre
valable, au moyen de la garde qui luy fust baillée, et qu'il n'estoit en
sa liberté_." Isambert, Recueil des anc. lois franç., xii. 292.]
[Footnote 350: Registres de l'hôtel de ville. Félibien, pièces justif.,
v. 345. In the preceding account these records, together with those of
parliament (ibid., iv. 686-688), the narrative of Félibien himself (ii.
997-999), and the Soissons MS. (Bulletin, xi. 254, 255), have been
chiefly relied upon. See also Cronique du Roy Françoys I^er, 113-121.]
[Footnote 351: "En sorte que si un des bras de mon corps estoit infecté
de cette farine, je le vouldrois coupper; et si mes enfans en estoient
entachez, je les vouldrois immoler." Voltaire (Hist. du parlement de
Paris, i. 118), citing the substance of this atrocious sentiment from
Maimbourg and Daniel, who themselves take it from Mézeray, says
incredulously: "Je ne sais où ces auteurs ont trouvé que François
premier avait prononcé ce discours abominable." M. Poirson answers by
giving as authority Théodore de Bèze (Hist. ecclés., i. 13). But on
referring to the documentary records from the Hôtel de Ville, among the
_pièces justificatives_ collected by Félibien, v. 346, the reader will
find the speech of Francis inserted at considerable length, and
apparently in very nearly the exact words employed. The contemporary
Cronique du Roy Françoys I^er, giving the fullest version of the speech
(pp. 121-12), attributes to the king about the same expressions.]
[Footnote 352: Histoire ecclés., i. 13.]
[Footnote 353: Histoire ecclés., _ubi supra_.]
[Footnote 354: "Une espèce _d'estrapade_ où l'on attachoit les
criminels, que les bourreaux, par le moyen d'une corde, guindoient en
haut, et les laissoient ensuite tomber dans le feu à diverses reprises,
pour faire durer leur supplice plus longtems." Félibien, ii. 999.]
[Footnote 355: Gerdes, Hist. Evang. renov., iv. 109. For the nature of
the penalty, see Bastard D'Estang, Les parlements de France, i. 425,
note on punishments.]
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