[330] "Conseil sur le fait du Concile de Trente," etc. Mem. de Conde, v. 81-129. The dedication to Prince Porcien is dated May 29, 1564. See De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxvi.) 501. [331] Du Moulin was ordered by a royal letter to be set at large, Lyons, June 24, 1564. [332] Conclusion of "Conseil," etc. Mem. de Conde, v. 129. [333] De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxvi.), 499, 500; Ag. d'Aubigne, Hist. univ., i. 203 (liv. iv., c. iv.); Mem. de Castelnau, liv. v., c. vi. [334] Prof. Soldan has discussed the matter at great length. Gesch. des Prot. in Frank., ii. 197, etc. [335] As early as Dec. 13, 1563, the queen mother had announced to the French ambassador in Vienna her son's expected journey, toward the end of February or the beginning of March, to visit his sister, the Duchess of Lorraine, and her infant son. Letter to Bochetel, Bishop of Rennes, Le Laboureur, i. 784. See, too, Languet's letter of Nov. 16, 1563, Epist. secr., ii. 268. [336] Lorraine to Granvelle, _ubi infra_. The progress was resolved upon, it will be seen, before Lorraine's return from Trent. [337] "I am going to meet their Majesties at Chalons," wrote the Cardinal of Lorraine from Tou-sur-Marne, between Rheims and Chalons, April 20, 1564; "thence they are to leave for Bar, where they will, I think, remain no more than four or five days. I hope that the voyage will be honorable and profitable for our house.... As to our court, it was never so empty of persons belonging to the opposite religion as it is now. The few that are there show very great regret at this voyage, in which I can assure you that I have not meddled at all, either to further or to retard it; only a short time after my return from Trent, I succeeded in having Nancy changed for Bar." Papiers d'etat du card. de Granvelle, vii. 511. [338] Smith to Cecil, Tarascon, Oct. 21, 1564, State Paper Office, Calendar. [339] "Assuredly, sir," wrote the cardinal in the letter just cited, "the queen my mistress shows, daily more and more, a strong and holy affection. This evening I have heard, by the Cardinal of Guise, my brother, who has reached me, many holy intentions of their Majesties, which may God give them grace to put into good execution." Ibid., _ubi supra_. In a somewhat similar strain Granvelle about this time wrote: "I am so strongly assured that religion is going to take a favorable turn in France, that I know not what to say of it. The world in that quarter is so light and variable, that no great grounds of confidence can be assumed. But it is at any rate something that matters are not growing worse." Letter to Bolwiller, April 9, 1564, Papiers d'etat, etc., vii. 461. [340] Letter of Granvelle to the Emperor Ferdinand, May 8, 1564, Papiers d'etat, vii. 613; also 622, 631. [341] "Les reformes qui formoient presque le tiers du royaume." Garnier, Hist. de France, xxx. 453.