[64] Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 132, 133 (liv. iii., c. 2). This striking incident rests on the sole authority of Agrippa d'Aubigne, who claims to have learned it "de ceux qui estoient de la partie." Hotman, who wrote his _Gasparis Colinii Vita_ (1575) at the earnest request of the admiral's _second_ wife, makes no allusion to a story throwing so much lustre upon the _first_. [65] Throkmorton to the queen, April 10, 1562, State Paper Office. [66] "Ou il faut que venez avec nous, ou nous emmenerons le Roy sans vous." Letter of Conde to the Emperor Ferdinand, April 20th, Mem. de Conde, iii. 305, etc. [67] "Alors Leurs Majestez, ne pouvant mieux, eurent recours a quelques larmes." Mem. de Castelnau, liv. iii., c. 8. [68] "Le Roy enfant de bonne nature et grande esperance, tesmoignoit non seulement par paroles, mais aussi avec abondance de larmes, extreme dueil et tristesse; et souventefois s'escriant, deploroit sa condition par telles paroles: 'Pourquoy ne me laissez-vous? Pour quelle raison me voy-je circuy et environne de gens armez? Pourquoy contre ma volonte me tirez-vous du lieu ou je prenoye mon plaisir? Pourquoy deschirez-vous ainsi mon estat en ce mien aage?'" Letter of Conde, _ubi supra_, iii. 306. [69] Charles the Ninth's entry into Paris was a sorry pageant compared with that of Guise only a few weeks earlier. "Only the merchants and a few counsellors of the city were present," says Jehan de la Fosse (p. 47). The king rode between the queen mother and the King of Navarre. According to Chamberlain, it was a _sober_, but not a _solemn_ entry (C. to Chaloner, April 7, 1562, State Paper Office). Either when Guise returned to Paris from Fontainebleau, or on his previous entry into the city--it is difficult from Claude Haton's confused narrative to determine which was intended--the people sang: "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Memoires, i. 245. [70] The singular name of this building is explained by the sign that hung before it. "Apvril. En ung samedy. M. Anne de Montmorenssy, connetable de France, fut devant brasque _en la maison ou pendoit pour enseigne la ville de Jerusalem_, ou preschoient les huguenots, et fist mettre le feu dedans la maison." Journal de J. de la Fosse, 46. [71] La Fosse, _ubi supra_; J. de Serres, ii. 27; Hist. eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 8; De Thou, iii. 136, 137; Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 80; Santa Croce to Borromeo, April 5 (Aymon, i. 125); Throkmorton to the queen, _ubi supra_. [72] Santa Croce to Borromeo, April 5th, Aymon, i. 126, and Cimber et Danjou, vi. 74. [73] Chantonnay, _ubi supra_, ii. 32. [74] Journal de Jehan de la Fosse, 46. The "Porte St. Honore," before which the Huguenots, after passing north of the city, presented themselves (Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 78), was in Francis I.'s time near the present "Palais Royal," in the time of Louis XIII. near the "Madeleine." See the map in Dulaure, Histoire de Paris.