[59] “Information contre Isabelle de Limeuil,” cited by La Ferrièrè. [60] “Information contre Isabelle de Limeuil.” [61] The word, almost illegible, may be either _partir_ or _pâtir_ (to be in distress). [62] A Latin satire of the time ran: “At multi dicunt quod pater Non est princeps, sed est alter Qui Regi est a secretis Omnibus est notus satis.” [63] The sister of Brantôme. [64] From this it is evident that Isabelle had refrained from informing Condé of the charge that had been brought against her, and allowed him to suppose that the Dijon scandal was the sole cause of her imprisonment. [65] Marguerite de Valois, youngest daughter of Francois I., who had married, in 1559, Emmanuel Philibert X., Duke of Savoy. [66] Comte Jules Delaborde, “Éléonore de Roye, Princesse de Condé.” [67] Comte Jules Delaborde, “Éléonore de Roye, Princesse de Condé.” [68] Martin Hume, “The Courtships of Mary Stuart.” [69] Castelnau, “Mémoires.” [70] Antoinette de Bourbon, widow of Claude de Lorraine. [71] Labanoff, “Lettres de Marie Stuart.” [72] State Papers (Elizabeth), Foreign Series. [73] Calvin had died on 27 May, 1564. [74] Renée de Bourbon, Abbess of Chelles, sister of Condé. [75] Presumably Condé’s chaplain, Pérssel, whose name is sometimes written Pérocel. [76] Françoise Marie d’Orléans, posthumous daughter of François d’Orléans, Marquis de Rothelin, a cadet of the House of Longueville, and Jacqueline de Rohan. The House of Longueville was a branch of the Royal House of France, descended from the celebrated Comte de Dunois--the “Bastard of Orleans”--son of Louis I., Duc d’Orléans. His nephew, Charles VII., gave him, in 1463, the county of Longueville, in the district of Caux, which had been ceded to Charles VI. by Bertrand du Guesclin, half a century earlier. Dunois’s grandson, François, was created a duke in 1505, and, in 1571, his successor, Léonor, brother to the second Princesse de Condé, received from Charles IX., for himself and his descendants, the title of Princes of the Blood. [77] Brantôme. [78] Ibid. [79] Smith to the Earl of Leicester, 5 May, 1565. State Papers (Elizabeth), Foreign Series. [80] D’Aubigné. [81] It was a perilous journey, for they were hotly pursued, and had not the Loire risen in sudden flood just after they had forded it near Sancerre, and arrested the pursuit, they would certainly have been captured. The fugitives saw in this event the direct interposition of Providence in their favour, and falling on their knees, sang the Psalm: _In exitu Israel_. [82] D’Aubigné, “Histoire universelle.” [83] Brantôme. [84] By the orders of his master, it was generally believed. “He (Condé),” writes Brantôme, “had been very earnestly _recommended_ to several of the favourites of the said _Monseigneur_ (Anjou) whom I knew.” [85] Davila, cited by Mr. A. W. Whitehead, “Gaspard de Coligny.” [86] Duc d’Aumale, “Histoire des Princes de Condé.”