les. des
eglises reformees, ii. 458. To stuff leaves torn from French Bibles into
the mouths or wounds of dying or dead Huguenots, as we have seen, was a
diversion not unknown to their opponents. Of course, there is nothing
astonishing in the circumstance that the invocation of Calvin's
liturgy--"Notre aide soit au nom de Dieu qui a fait le ciel et la
terre"--should have been a favorite formula for the beginning of a game of
chance, or that the doxology--"Louange a Dieu de tous ses biens"--["Praise
God from whom all blessings flow."]--should have been esteemed a fitting
ejaculation for the winner. Ibid., ii. 310, 431.

[279] "'Double mort Dieu' a vaincu 'Certes'; entendant par ce dernier mot
ceux de la religion qui condamnent ces juremens et blasphemes." Hist.
eccles. des egl. ref., ii. 507.

[280] De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.) 409.

[281] Declaration dated Chatillon-sur-Loing, May 5, 1563. Mem. de Conde,
iv. 339-349; and Jean de Serres, iii. 15-29.

[282] Martin, Hist. de France, x. 164.

[283] De Thou, iii. (liv. xxxv.), 415, 416. Catharine had been the
involuntary instrument of renewing the old friendship between the
constable and his nephews, when, on Guise's death, she conferred the
office of grand master upon his young son, instead of restoring it to Anne
de Montmorency, to whom the dignity had formerly belonged. Three months
later (Aug. 30, 1563) Conde drew up another paper, assuming the entire
responsibility for all the acts of the Chatillon brothers during the war:
"Acte par lequel M. le prince de Conde declare que tout ce que M. l'amiral
de Coligny et M. D'Andelot son frere ont fait pendant les troubles, ils
ont fait a sa requisition et par ses ordres." Mem. de Conde, iv. 651.

[284] See Martin, x. 174, 175.

[285] Davila, bk. iii. 92, and D'Aubigne, liv. iv., c. iii. (i. 201), both
of whom mistake the place of the occurrence, supposing it to have been
Paris.

[286] Copie de la requeste presentee au Roy tres-chrestien par ceulx de la
mayson de Guyse, etc. Mem. de Conde, iv. 667, 668.

[287] Ibid., iv. 668.

[288] "C'est un vray moyen pour destruire et gaster en une heure tout le
fondement de ce qu'elle a prins grand' peine de bastir depuis six mois."
Memoire presente a la Reine-mere, pour empecher que la maison de Guyse
n'allat demander justice au parlement de Paris, de l'assassinat de
Francois duc de Guise. Mem. de Conde, iv. 493-495.

[289] Arret du conseil du Roy, par lequel il evoque a sa personn