[552] Jean de Serres, _ubi supra_. Cf. De Thou, iv. 142; Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. fr. (1854), iii. 239. This valuable periodical is mistaken in stating, vii. (1858) 120, that "D'Andelot s'etait retire dans ses terres de Bretagne a la conclusion de la paix." He did not leave Tanlay until after writing the letter referred to below, and shortly before Coligny's arrival: "partant de chez lui, pour se rendre chez son frere Andelot, il trouva qu'il etoit alle en Bretagne." Vie de Coligny, 350. D'Andelot was in Brittany at the outbreak of the third war. His adventures in escaping to La Rochelle will be narrated in the next chapter. Mr. Henry White is, of course, equally wrong when he says (Massacre of St. Bartholomew, New York, 1868, p. 291): "The admiral had gone to this charming retreat [Tanlay], to consult with his brother, to whom it belonged, _and who had joined him there_," and when he mentions D'Andelot as in the suite of Conde and Coligny in their celebrated flight (p. 292); "besides which, he (the prince) was accompanied by the admiral and his family, _by Andelot_ and his wife," etc. [553] Lettre de Francois d'Andelot a la Royne mere du Roy, de Tanlay, co 8me juillet, 1568. MS. Library of Berne. This letter has been twice printed in the Bulletin de la Soc. de l'hist. du prot. francais, iv. (1856) 329-331, and vii. (1858) 121-123. The first reproduction is in one important part more correct than the second. It is not impossible, after all, that the author of the letter was not D'Andelot, but his brother, Admiral Coligny himself; for M. J. Tessier mentions (Bulletin, xxii. (1873) 47), that it exists in manuscript in the Paris National Library (MSS. Vc. Colbert, 24, f. 161), in the admiral's own handwriting, and signed with his usual signature, _Chastillon_. The whole tone, I must confess, seems rather to be his. [554] Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), 96. [555] Norris to Queen Elizabeth, May 12, 1568, State Paper Office. [556] Jean de Serres, iii. 170; Davila, bk. iv. 128; Conde to the king, Noyers, June 11, 1568, MS. Paris Lib., _apud_ D'Aumale, ii. 351-353. [557] As the prince had described the state of affairs in a letter to the king, of July 22, 1568: "Nous nous voions tuez, pillez, saccagez, les femmes forcees, les filles ravies des mains de leurs peres et meres, les grands mis hors de leurs charges," etc. All this injustice had been committed with complete impunity. In fact, to use his own forcible words, were the king to attempt to punish the outrages done to the Protestants, "the trees in France would have more men than leaves upon them"--"tous les arbres seroient plus couvertz d'hommes que de feuilles." MS. Paris Lib., _apud_ D'Aumale, ii. 355, 356. [558] J. de Serres, iii. 171-173; Davila, bk. iv. 128.