live to recover his freedom. Worn out by a life of dissipation, he died, in his thirty-eighth year, at the Tournelles, to which prison he had been removed from the Bastile. The decease of Vendôme took place in 1560, and, for several years, with the exception of a duke of Lunebourg, who was imprisoned for a quarrel with the duke of Guise, no prisoner, at least none whose fate history has thought worthy of recording, appears to have found an abode within the walls of the Bastile. After the horrible massacre of St. Bartholomew, there was a moment when the fortress seemed about to receive a princely captive. The king of Navarre (afterwards Henry IV.) had yielded to the threats of the royal murderer, and had changed his religion; but the Prince of Condé was made of sterner stuff. He resisted so firmly all attempts to induce him to apostatize, that Charles IX. ordered him to be brought before him, and, in a furious tone, addressed to him three ominous words; “The mass, death, or the Bastile.” Condé held out a little longer, but he yielded when he found that du Rosier, a famous protestant minister, had been converted to the Catholic faith. It was not till towards the close of the reign of Charles IX. that the Bastile was again tenanted. That monarch was then sinking rapidly into the grave, under the pressure of bodily disease, and the perpetual stings of his conscience. Haunted by appalling dreams, and by direful spectres and dismal sounds, which his fancy incessantly conjured up, he had fallen into a state which scarcely the remembrance of his crimes can prevent us from pitying. It was at this period that the party was formed which adopted the appellations of Politicians and Malecontents. The first of these names was chosen to show that the persons assuming it were not actuated, like the protestants, by religious motives. The oppressive weight of the taxes, the insolent licentiousness of the soldiery, and the cruelty and flagrant incapacity of those who managed the public affairs, were their grounds of complaint. At the head of this party, which soon became considerable, were William de Montmorenci and his nephew, the Viscount de Turenne. Though this party consisted of catholics, yet, as among the objects which it sought to obtain there were many which the protestants no less eagerly desired, it was not long before a coalition was formed between them.