[81] Traicte d'association, etc., April 11th. Mem. de Conde, iii. 258-262; J. Serres, ii. 31-37; De Thou, iii. 141. [82] See Pasquier's letter to Fonssomme, already referred to, which contains a vivid picture of the confusion reigning in Paris, the surprise of the papal party, and the delight of the untrained populace at the prospect of war. OEuvres (ed. Feugere), ii. 246-250. [83] Mem. de Castelnau, liv. iii., c. 8. [84] Ibid., liv. iii., c. 9. [85] Even so late as May 8, 1562, the English minister resident at the court, than whom probably no other person in France felt obliged to keep himself better informed, wrote to Cecil respecting the Prince of Conde's strength: "I can assur you att thys dyspatche _he ys the strongest partie_, and in suche state his matter standeth, that _these men_ [the court] _wold fayne have a reasonable end, thoughe yt were with some dishonnour_." MSS. State Paper Office, Duc d'Aumale, Princes de Conde, Pieces justif., i. 370. [86] It is strange that a historian at once so conscientious and generally so well-informed as M. Rosseeuw Saint-Hilaire should, in his Histoire d'Espagne, ix. 60, 61, have made the grave mistake of holding Calvin responsible for the excesses of the iconoclasts. See the Bulletin, xiv. 127, etc., for a complete refutation. [87] Like the undeceived dupe in the old Athenian comedy, who mournfully laments that he had been led to worship a bit of earthenware as a god: Oimoi deilaios, Hote kai se chutreoun onta theon hegesamen. (ARISTOPHANES, CLOUDS, 1473, 1474.) On the other hand, the zealous Roman Catholic had his arguments for the preservation and worship of images, some of which may strike us as sufficiently whimsical. "I confess," says one, "that God has forbidden idols and idolatry, but He has not forbidden the images (or pictures) which we hold for the veneration of the saints. For if that were so, _He would not have left us the effigy of his holy face_ painted in His likeness, on the cloth which that good lady Veronica presented Him, which yet to-day is looked upon with so much devotion in the church of St. Peter at Rome, nor the impression of His holy body represented in the 'saint suaire' which is at Chambery. Is it not found that Saint Luke thrice made with his own hand the portrait of Our Lady?... That holy evangelist ought certainly to have known the will of his Lord and Master better than you, my opponent, who wish to interpret the Scripture according to your sensuality." Discours des Guerres de Provence (Arch. curieuses, iv. 501, 502). Of course, the author never dreamed that his _facts_ might possibly be disputed.