[506] "L'Amiral maintenoit et remonstroit que cette paix n'estoit que pour sauver Chartres, et puis pour assommer separez ceux qu'on ne pourroit vaincre unis." Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 232. [507] "Le Prince de Conde plus facile, desireux de la cour, ou il avoit laisse quelque semence d'amourettes, se servit de ce que plusieurs quittoient l'armee," etc. Ibid., _ubi supra_. [508] La Noue, c. xviii. [509] La Noue, c. xix. [510] "La paix fourree," Soulier, Histoire des edits de pacification, 73. "Ceste meschante petite paix," La Noue, c. xix. Agrippa d'Aubigne, Hist. universelle, i. 260, and, following him, Browning, Hist. of the Huguenots, i. 220, and De Felice, Hist. of the Protestants of France, 190, say that this peace was wittily christened "La paix boiteuse et mal-assise;" but, as we shall see, this designation belongs to the peace of Saint Germain-en-Laye, in 1570, concluding the third religious war. [511] Leopold Ranke, Civil Wars and Monarchy in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York, 1853), 234. [512] Norris to Cecil, Paris, March 30, 1568, State Paper Office. [513] La Noue, c. xviii. (Anc. coll., 214). [514] A fortnight had not elapsed since the date of the Edict of Pacification when Conde was compelled to call the king's attention to a flagrant outrage committed by Foissy, a royalist, against the Sieur d'Esternay. After having burned Esternay's residence at Lamothe during the preliminary truce, Foissy subsequently to the conclusion of peace returned and completed his work of devastation. Conde to Charles IX., April 5, 1568, MS., Archives du dep. du Nord, _apud_ Duc d'Aumale, i. 572. [515] "Nous avons fait la folie, ne trouvons donc estrange si nous la beuvons. Toutefois il y a apparence que le breuvage sera amer." La Noue, _ubi supra_. [516] De Thou, iv. 55, 56; Jean de Serres, Comm. de statu, etc., iii. 160; Conde's petition of Aug. 23d, ibid., iii. 218; Mem. de Claude Haton, i. 357-359, who, however, makes the singular blunder of placing the incident of Rapin's death after the peace of Amboise in 1563. The cure's description of the zeal of the Toulouse parliament for the Roman Catholic Church confirms everything that Protestant writers have said on the subject: "Laditte court de parlement avoit tousjours resiste a laditte pretendue religion et faict executer ceux qui en faisoient profession, nonobstant edict a ce contraire faict en faveur d'iceux huguenotz." See also Raoul de Cazenove, Rapin-Thoyras, sa famille, sa vie, et ses oeuvres (Paris, 1866), 47-49--a truly valuable work, and a worthy tribute to a distinguished ancestry. [517] "Edictum promulgant, hac addita exceptione, _Reservatis clausulis quae secreto Senatus commentario continentur_." J. de Serres, iii. 160, 161; De Thou, _ubi supra_. See the petition of Conde of Aug. 23d. J. de Serres, iii. 220, etc. [518] Mem. de Claude Haton, ii. 527, etc.