HUGUENOT MARCH TO PONT-À-MOUSSON AFTER THE BATTLE OF ST. DENIS 329 THE BATTLE OF ST. DENIS _between_ pp. 332, 333 AUTUMN CAMPAIGN OF 1568 368 CROQUIS DU THÉATRE DE LA GUERRE POUR LA PÉRIODE DU 24 FÉVRIER AU 13 MARS 1569, ACCORDING TO M. S. C. GIGON 376 BATAILLE DE JARNAC, ACCORDING TO M. S. C. GIGON 377 CAMPAIGN OF THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF 1569 380 POITIERS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 386 PLAN OF THE FORTRESS OF NAVARRENS MADE BY JUAN MARTINEZ DESCURRA, A SPANISH SPY 398 VOYAGE OF THE PRINCES AFTER THE BATTLE OF MONCONTOUR; MONTGOMERY’S ITINERARY IN BIGORRE AND GASCONY; UNION OF COLIGNY AND MONTGOMERY IN DECEMBER, 1569, AT PORT STE. MARIE 402 THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW 422 PLAN DE LA ROCHELLE EN 1572 458 LETTER OF HENRY III OF FRANCE TO THE DUKE OF SAVOY 484 LETTER OF HENRY III TO THE SWISS CANTONS 485 MAP OF FRANCE SHOWING PROVINCES 602 CHAPTER I THE BEGINNING OF THE HUGUENOT REVOLT. THE CONSPIRACY OF AMBOISE The last day of June, 1559, was a gala day in Paris. The marriages of Philip II of Spain with Elizabeth of France, daughter of King Henry II and Catherine de Medici, and that of the French King’s sister, Marguerite with Emanuel Philibert, duke of Savoy, were to be celebrated. But “the torches of joy became funeral tapers”[3] before nightfall, for Henry II was mortally wounded in the tournament given in honor of the occasion.[4] It was the rule that challengers, in this case the King, should run three courses and their opponents one. The third contestant of the King had been Gabriel, sieur de Lorges, better known as the count of Montgomery, captain of the Scotch Guard,[5] a young man, “grand et roidde,” whom Henry rechallenged because his pride was hurt that he had not better kept his seat in the saddle in the first running. Montgomery tried to refuse, but the King silenced his objections with a command and reluctantly[6] Montgomery resumed his place. But this time the Scotch guardsman failed to cast away the trunk of the splintered lance as he should have done at the moment of the shock, and the fatal accident followed. The jagged point crashed through the King’s visor into the right eye.[7] For a minute Henry reeled in his saddle, but by throwing his arms around the neck of his horse, managed to keep his seat. The King’s armor was stripped from him at once and “a splint taken out of good bigness.”[8] He moved neither hand nor foot, and lay as if benumbed or paralyzed,[9] and so was