gave him the appointment of body-surgeon to the King, a post
which he continued to fill under Francis II, Charles IX, and Henri III.
Charles IX, whose life he saved when he had nearly fallen a victim to
the want of skill of his physician Portail, who, in opening a vein, had
inflicted a deep and dangerous wound in his arm, repaid the benefit by
concealing him in his own chamber during the massacre of St.
Bartholomew. Pare was a zealous Calvinist. He died in 1590. His
published works consist of one folio volume, divided into
twenty-eight books.

[10] Gillone Goyon, dite de Matignon, demoiselle de Torigni, was the
daughter of Jacques de Matignon, Marshal of France, and of Francoise de
Daillon, who was subsequently married to Pierre de Harcourt, Seigneur
de Beuvron.

[11] Levi Alvares, _Hist. Clas. des Reines et Regentes de France_, p.
185.

[12] Dupleix, _Hist. de Louis XIII_, p. 53.

[13] Sully, _Memoires_, vol. i. p. 45.

[14] Catherine de Bourbon, Princesse de Navarre, and sister of Henri IV,
was born at Paris in 1558. After his accession to the throne of France,
Henry gave her in marriage to Henri de Lorraine, Duc de Bar. She refused
to change her religion, even when her brother had done so, and died,
without issue, in 1604, at Nancy.

[15] _Memoires de Marguerite_, pp. 176, 177.

[16] Anne, Duc de Joyeuse, Admiral and Peer of France, first gentleman
of the bedchamber, and Governor of Normandy, was born in 1561. He was
one of the _mignons_ of Henri III, who, in 1582, gave him in marriage
Marguerite de Lorraine, the sister of the Queen Louise de Vaudemont. He
commanded the troops in Guienne against the Huguenots, where he
exercised the greatest cruelties; and having been defeated at the battle
of Coutras in 1587, he was put to death by the conquerors.

[17] This child, called by Bassompierre _le Pere Archange_, and by
Dupleix _le Pere Ange_, was the son of Jacques de Harlay de Chanvallon,
known at Court as "the handsome Chanvallon," and was the individual who,
as the confessor of the Marquise de Verneuil, became one of the most
active agents in the conspiracy which was formed against Henri IV and
the French Princes.

[18] Dreux du Radier, vol. v. p. 176.

[19] Mezeray, vol. iii. p. 546. Varillas, _Histoire de Henri III_, book
vii.

[20] D'Aubigny, _Hist_. vol. ii. book v. ch. iii. (1583). _Confession de
Sancy_, ch. vii. p. 447. Duplessis-Mornay.

[21] Duplessis-Mornay, _Mem_. p. 203.

[22] Jacques Govo