[307] "Le bon prince," says Brantome, "estoit aussi mondain qu'un autre, et aimoit autant la femme d'autruy que la sienne, tenant fort du naturel de ceux de la race de Bourbon, qui ont este fort d'amoureuse complexion." Hommes illustres, M. le Prince de Conde. Granvelle wrote to the Emperor Ferdinand from Besancon (April 12, 1564), that word had come from France, "que le prince de Conde y entendoit au service des dames plus qu'en aultre chose, et assez froid en la religion des huguenotz." Papiers d'etat, vii. 467. [308] See Bayle's art. on Isabeau de Limueil; J. de Serres, iii. 45, 46; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 42. [309] Jean de Serres, iii. 50, 51; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 412, 413. Cf. Bolwiller to Cardinal Granvelle, Sept. 4, 1564, Papiers d'etat du cardinal de Granvelle, viii. 305. See, however, the statements in chapter xvi. of this history. [310] His revenue from his county of Soissons was not 1,000 crowns a year, and he had little from his other possessions (Le Laboureur, ii. 611). Secretary Courtewille, in his secret report (Dec., 1561), states that the Huguenot nobles of the first rank were in general poor--Vendome, Conde, Coligny, etc.--and that were it not for a monthly sum of 1,200 crowns, which the Huguenots furnished to Conde, and 1,000 which the admiral received in similar manner, they would hardly know how to support themselves. Papiers d'etat du card. de Granv., vi. 440. [311] Mary herself, however, writing to her aunt, the Duchess of Aerschot (Nov. 6, 1564), represents the offer of marriage as made by Conde, both to her grandmother and to her uncle the cardinal: "a qui il a fait toutes les belles offres du monde." Papiers d'etat du card. de Granv., viii. 481. [312] Jean de Serres, iii. 32, 33. [313] Ibid., iii. 45, 46; De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 414; D'Aubigne, Hist. univ., i. 197. [314] On the upper Tarn, in the modern department of the Aveyron. [315] The very important documents which exhibit these facts at great length are in the archives of the "Mairie" of Milhau and in the Bibliotheque nationale, and were inedited until printed in the Bulletin, ix. (1860) 382-392. Among the names of the Huguenots of Milhau figuring here is that of Benoit Ferragut, apothecary. [316] Graignan, pour l'eglise de Someyre, a la Venerable Compagnie, 19 juin, 1563, Gaberel, Hist. de l'eglise de Geneve, i., Pieces justificatives, 153. "Et pourtant, je ne peux pas suffire a tout. Les paysans se baptisent les enfants les ungs les autres, ou sont contraincts de les laisser a baptiser." [317] Les consuls de Montpellier a la Ven. Comp., 30 janvier, 1563 (1564), ibid., i., Pieces just., 179.