king visited him,
but the queen-mother prevented all private intercourse between them. On
the 24th of August, the night of the massacre, he was attacked in his
house, and a servant of the duke of Guise, generally known as Besme,
slew him and cast him from a window into the courtyard at his master's
feet. His papers were seized and burned by the queen-mother; among them,
according to Brantome, was a history of the civil war, "tres-beau et
tres-bien faict, et digne d'estre imprime."

By his wife, Charlotte de Laval, Coligny had several children, among
them being Louise, who married first Charles de Teligny and afterwards
William the Silent, prince of Orange, and Francis, admiral of Guienne,
who was one of the devoted servants of Henry IV. Gaspard de Coligny
(1584-1646), son of Francis, was marshal of France during the reign of
Louis XIII.

See Jean du Bouchet, _Preuves de l'histoire genealogique de l'illustre
maison de Coligny_ (Paris, 1661); biography by Francois Hotman, 1575
(French translation, 1665); L. J. Delaborde, _Gaspard de Coligny_
(1879-1882); Erich Marcks, _Gaspard von Coligny, sein Leben und das
Frankreich seiner Zeit_ (Stuttgart, 1892); H. Patry, "Coligny et la
Papaute," in the _Bulletin du protestantisme francais_ (1902); A. W.
Whitehead, _Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France_ (1904); and C.
Merki, _L'Amiral de Coligny_ (1909).

COLIMA, a small Pacific coast state of Mexico, lying between Jalisco on
the N.W. and N., and Michoacan on the E. Including the Revilla Gigedo
islands its area is only 2272 sq. m., which thus makes it the second
smallest of the Mexican states. Pop. (1895) 55,264; (1900) 65,115. The
larger part of its territory is within the narrow, flat coastal plain,
beyond which it rises toward the north-east into the foothills of the
Sierra Madre, the higher masses of the range, including the Colima
volcano, lying outside the state. It is drained by the Ameria and
Coahuayana rivers and their affluents, which are largely used for
irrigation. There are tidewater lagoons and morasses on the coast which
accentuate its malarious character. One of the largest of these,
Cuitlan, immediately south of Manzanillo, is the centre of a large
salt-producing industry. The soil is generally fertile and productive,
but lack of transportation facilities has been a serious obstacle to any
production greatly exceeding local demands. The dry and rainy seasons
are sharply defined, the rainfal