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Such were the scenes which were enacted in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Bourges, Angers, Lyons, and scores of other cities in France. It is impossible to ascertain with precision the number of victims. The Duke of Sully estimates them at seventy thousand; the Bishop Péréfixe at one hundred thousand.
L'Etoile computes them at one hundred and twenty-seven. Journ. de Henri IV, vol. iii. p. 21. Mézeray, vol. x. p. 205. Matthieu, Hist. des Troubles, book ii. pp. 426, 427. Monttaucon, vol. v. p. 410. Péréfixe, vol. ii. p. 377. Mézeray, vol. x. p. 209. Réné de Marée-Montbarot, Governor of Rennes in 1602.
Hardouin de Perefixe, in his "History of Henry the Great," says, "If it be asked who inspired the monster with the thought, history answers that she does not know; and that in so mysterious an affair, it is not allowable to vent suspicions and conjectures as assured truths; that even the judges who conducted the examinations opened not their mouths, and spoke only with their shoulders."
Concino Concini was the son of a notary, who, by his talent, had risen to be secretary of state at Florence. Dreux du Radier, Mémoires des Reines et Régentes de France, vol. vi. p. 81. Conti, Amours du Grand Alcandre, Cologne edition, 1652, p. 41. Péréfixe, vol. ii. p. 346. L'Etoile, vol. ii. pp. 573, 574. Matthieu, vol. ii. p. 441. Mézeray, vol. x. p. 178. Daniel, vol. vii. p. 407.
The King's studies with his preceptor, Perefixe, had been of only a superficial sort, as, in accordance with the express order of the Queen-mother, this prelate had been mainly concerned about the health of his pupil, the Queen being, above all, desirous that he should have a good constitution.
Matthieu, Hist, des Derniers Troubles, book ii. p. 438. Péréfixe, vol. ii. pp. 406, 407. L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 242. Mémoires, vol. v. p. 185. L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 243. Charlotte, eldest daughter of Henri, Duc de Montmorency, High Constable of France. L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 247-249. Jean Defunctis, Lieutenant criminal of the Provost of Paris. Hist. Chron. de la Chancell. de France, p. 316.
M. de Chésy died in 1652. Péréfixe, vol. ii. p. 401. Sully, Mém. vol. v. pp. 193-197. Guillaume Fouquet, Sieur de la Varenne, was one of those singularly-gifted individuals who by the unaided power of intellect are raised from obscurity to fortune.
Histoire de Thou; L'Estoile; Memoires de la Reine Marguerite; Histoire de Henri le Grand, par Madame de Genlis; Memoires de Sully; D'Aubigne; Matthien; Brantome's Vie de Charles IX.; Henri Martin's History of France; Mezerai; Perefixe; Sismondi. The Thirty Years' War, of which Gustavus Adolphus was the greatest hero, was the result of those religious agitations which the ideas of Luther produced.
Upon the last of these occasions he had reached the capital during the Easter festivals, but he determined to delay his purpose until after the coronation of the Queen. Péréfixe, vol. ii. pp. 496-498. Mézeray, vol. x. p. 395. Mercure Français, p. 424. L'Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 36-40. Mercure Français, pp. 424, 425. L'Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 40, 41. Daniel, vol. vii. p. 507. Mézeray, vol. x. p. 397.
In 1604 Henri IV created in his favour the office of keeper of the seals of France; and finally, on the death of the Chancelier de Bellièvre, he became his successor. Sully, Mém. vol. iii. pp. 189, 190. "Comme s'il fût revenu d'extase," says Péréfixe, vol. ii. p. 300. In April 1599. Bernard de Montfaucon. Les Monumens de la Monarchie Française, Paris, 1733, in folio, vol. v. p. 396.
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