[360] Harangue de l'Admiral de France a Messieurs de la Cour de Parlement de Paris, du 27 janvier 1565, avec la reponse. Papiers d'etat du card. de Granvelle, viii. 655-657. M. de Crussol, in a letter of February 4, 1565, alludes to the admiral's flattering reception by the clergy and by the Sorbonne, "qui sont alle le visiter et offert infiny service;" and states that both parties were gratified by the interview. Conde MSS., in Duc d'Aumale, Princes de Conde, Pieces inedits, i. 520. [361] Philip II. to Alva, Dec. 14, 1563, Pap. d'etat du card. de Granvelle, vii. 269; Alva to Philip II., Dec. 22, 1563, ib., vii. 286, 287. [362] Granvelle to the Baron de Bolwiller, March 13, 1565, ib., ix. 61, 62. [363] Ibid., _ubi supra_. "Je vous asseure, comme il est veritable, qu'il n'y a aultre chose en cecy que simple visitation de fille a mere." [364] Prof. Kluckholn, strangely enough, speaks of Jean de Serres's Commentarii de statu relig., etc., as "zuerst im Jahre, 1575, erschienen" (Zur Geschichte des angeb. Buendnisses von Bayonne, Abhand. der k. bayer. Akademie, Muenchen, 1868, p. 151). I have before me the earlier edition of 1571, containing verbatim the passage he quotes, with a single unimportant exception--"ecclesiarum" instead of "religiosorum." [365] J. de Serres, Comment, de statu reipublicae et religionis in Gallia regno, Carolo IX. rege (1571), iii. 92. The Prince of Conde, in his long petition sent to Charles, Aug. 23, 1568, at the outbreak of the Third Civil War, says expressly in reference to events a year preceding the Second War: "Quandoquidem ego et alii Religionis reformatae viri fuerimus jampridem admoniti de inito Baionae consilio cum Hispano, ad eos omnes plane delendos atque exterminandos qui Religionem reformatam in tuo regno profiteantur." Ibid., iii. 200. [366] The remark is said to have been accidentally overheard by Henry of Navarre, afterward Henry the Fourth, of whose presence little account was taken in consequence of his youth. (He was just eleven years and a half old.) But his intimate follower, Agrippa d'Aubigne, would have been likely to give him as authority, had this been the case. He only says: "Les plus licentieux faisoient leur profit d'un terme du Duc d'Alve a Baionne, que dix mille grenouilles ne valloient pas la teste d'un saumon." Hist. univ., liv. iv., c. v. (i. 206). Jean de Serres, _ubi supra_, iii. 125, gives the expression in nearly the same words: "Satius esse unicum salmonis caput, quam mille ranarum capita habere." [367] Smith to Leicester and Cecil, July 2-29, 1565, State Paper Office, Calendar, 403.