en the queen mother and the King of Navarre. According to
Chamberlain, it was a _sober_, but not a _solemn_ entry (C. to Chaloner,
April 7, 1562, State Paper Office). Either when Guise returned to Paris
from Fontainebleau, or on his previous entry into the city--it is
difficult from Claude Haton's confused narrative to determine which was
intended--the people sang: "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord." Memoires, i. 245.

[70] The singular name of this building is explained by the sign that hung
before it. "Apvril. En ung samedy. M. Anne de Montmorenssy, connetable de
France, fut devant brasque _en la maison ou pendoit pour enseigne la ville
de Jerusalem_, ou preschoient les huguenots, et fist mettre le feu dedans
la maison." Journal de J. de la Fosse, 46.

[71] La Fosse, _ubi supra_; J. de Serres, ii. 27; Hist. eccles. des egl.
ref., ii. 8; De Thou, iii. 136, 137; Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 80; Santa
Croce to Borromeo, April 5 (Aymon, i. 125); Throkmorton to the queen, _ubi
supra_.

[72] Santa Croce to Borromeo, April 5th, Aymon, i. 126, and Cimber et
Danjou, vi. 74.

[73] Chantonnay, _ubi supra_, ii. 32.

[74] Journal de Jehan de la Fosse, 46. The "Porte St. Honore," before
which the Huguenots, after passing north of the city, presented themselves
(Bruslart, Mem. de Conde, i. 78), was in Francis I.'s time near the
present "Palais Royal," in the time of Louis XIII. near the "Madeleine."
See the map in Dulaure, Histoire de Paris.

[75] Mem de la Noue, c. i. The letter of Beza to Calvin from Meaux, March
28, 1562, shows, however, that even before the prince left that city it
was known that the triumvirs had set out for Fontainebleau. Beza, not
apparently without good reason, blamed the improvidence of Conde in not
forestalling the enemy. "Hostes, relicto in urbe non magno praesidio, in
aulam abierunt quod difficile non erat et prospicere et impedire. Sed
aliter visum est certis de causis, quas tamen nec satis intelligo nec
probo." Baum, ii., App., 176.

[76] Yet, if we may credit the unambiguous testimony of Jean de Tavannes,
Catharine did not cease to endeavor to favor the Huguenots. He assures us
that, a few months later, during the summer, his father, Gaspard de
Tavannes, intercepted at Chalons a messenger whom Catharine had despatched
to her daughter the Duchess of Savoy ("qui agreoit ces nouvelles
opinions") ostensibly as a lute-player. Among his effects the prying
governor of Burgundy found l