[290] "Ne parlez encore a personne," writes Catharine to M. de Gonnor (March 12, 1563), "des conditions, car j'ay toujours peur qu'ils ne nous trompent; encore que le Prince de Conde leur a declare que s'ils n'acceptent ces conditions et s'ils ne veulent la paix, qu'il s'en viendra avec le Roy mon fils, et se declarera leur ennemy, chose que je trouve tres-bonne." Le Laboureur, ii. 241. [291] Not September 15th, as Davila states, nor September 24th, as D'Aubigne seems to assert; but his narrative is confused. [292] The two documents--address and edict--in Mem. de Conde, iv. 574-581. [293] Floquet, Hist. du parlement de Normandie, ii. 584. The entire scene is very vividly portrayed, ibid., ii. 561-586. Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 132; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 421-424; Jean de Serres, iii. 32; Mem. de Castelnau, liv. v., c. iv., etc.; Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. univ., liv. iv., c. iii. (i. 200-202); Davila, bk. iii. 90. [294] "Les Parisiens furent fort presses qu'ils eussent a mettres les armes bas," says the metropolitan curate, Jean de la Fosse, under date of May, 1563, "mais ils n'en volurent jamais rien faire." Mem. d'un cure ligueur, 63, 64. [295] A town on the left bank of the Seine, four leagues beyond Meulan. [296] Mem. de Conde (Bruslart), Sept., 1563, i. 133-135. [297] Ibid., _ubi supra_. "Ces parolles la sont venues de la boutique de Monsieur le Chancellier et non du Roy." [298] Ibid., i. 136. Even after Charles's lecture and a still more intemperate address of Montluc, Bishop of Valence, when parliament came to a vote there was a tie. To please Catharine, whose entire authority was at stake, the royal council of state gave the extraordinary command that the minute of this vote should be erased from the records of parliament, and the edict instantly registered. This last was forthwith done. De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 426, 427. Bruslart (_ubi supra_, i. 136) denies that the erasure was actually made as Charles had commanded. [299] De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 441, etc. [300] Letter of Card. de la Bourdaisiere, Rome, Oct. 23, 1563, in which sentence is said to have been pronounced, the day before, on the Archbishop of Aix, and the bishops of Uzes, Valence, Oleron, Lescar, Chartres, and Troyes. Le Laboureur, i. 863, 864. [301] Monitorium et citatio officii sanctae Inquisitionis contra illustrissimam et serenissimam dominam Joannam Albretiam, reginam Navarrae, Mem. de Conde, iv. 669-679; and Vauvilliers, Histoire de Jeanne d'Albret, iii. Pieces justif., 221-240. It is dated Tuesday, September 28, 1563. De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 442. The Card. de la Bourdaisiere (_ubi supra_) merely says: "Tout le monde dit a Rome, que la Reine de Navarre fut aussi privee audit Consistoire, mais il n'en est rien, bien est-elle citee." Mem. de Castelnau, liv. v., c. ix.