M.

• Macon, leaps of, 238.
• Maine, sad condition of, 263.
• Mandelot begs a share of the plunder, 450.
• Margaret of Valois, 6.
• Margaret, Princess, proposed marriage with Henry of Navarre, 339.
• description of, 349.
• alarmed by her sister, 402.
• scene in her chamber, 415.
• saves Léran’s life, 416.
• weeps over head of La Mole, 479.
• Marie de Barbançon, her intrepidity, 310.
• Marie Mouchet, 323, 483.
• Marillac, Archbishop, his speech at Fontainebleau, 100.
• Marlorat hanged, 215.
• Marot imprisoned, 19.
• his Psalms, 46.
• Martyrdoms, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 19.
• Massacre in Paris, the, 417, 444.
• Massacre in Paris, number of victims in, 459, 461.
• Maugiron, cruelties at Valence, 95.
• Maurevel hired to kill the admiral, 378, 380.
• Maximilian II., his thoughts on the massacre, 469.
• Meaux, the martyrs of, 15.
• royal flight from, 269.
• the massacre at, 452.
• Medals, commemorative, 464, 466.
• Mercurial of Henry II., 51.
• Mergey, adieu of Rambouillet, 401.
• Mérindol destroyed, 12.
• Merlin, the admiral’s chaplain, consoles Coligny, 380.
• singular escape, 408.
• Micheli’s account of the Huguenots, 174.
• Michelle de Caignoncle’s alms, 18.
• Minard, President, shot, 74.
• Miracle of the flowering thorn, 434.
• Moderate party, 285, 315, 328, 330.
• Monceaux, meeting of conspirators at, 377.
• Moncontour, battle of, 305.
• Mons, capture of, 358.
• Montauban, Huguenot assembly at, 477.
• Montbrun takes up arms, 95.
• Montfauçon, the gibbet at, 411.
• Montgomery kills Henry II., 58.
• governor of Rouen, 213.
• escapes from Paris, 428.
• made prisoner, 481.
• Montluc, Bishop, his speech at Fontainebleau, 99.
• Montluc, Blaise de, his barbarities, 230.
• wise severity, 264.
• Montmorency, Constable, 27.
• his cruelty, 28.
• dismissed, 71.
• combines with Guise and St. André, 163.
• burns the meeting-houses, 208.
• made prisoner at Dreux, 220.
• killed at St. Denis, 273.
• Montmorency, Marshal, threatens Cardinal Lorraine, 261.
• advises war with Spain, 331.
• tries to negotiate with Huguenots, 339.
• Montsoreau, his treachery and cruelty, 448.
• Moreau burned at Troyes, 16.
• Moulins, assembly at, 258.
• Coligny and Guise reconciled at, 260.
• Mouvans, death of, 96.
• Muretus panegyrizes the murderers, 466.
• Music, decline of, in church, 46.

N.

• Nantes, meeting at, 79.
• refusal of magistrates to kill Huguenots, 448.
• Nassau, Count Louis of, at Moncontour, 305.
• Nassau, Count Louis of, interview with Charles at Lumigny, 331.
• Navarre, King of; see Anthony.
• Navy, French, in sixteenth century, 126.
• Nemours, Duke of, 270.
• Duchess of, proposal that she shall assassinate Coligny, 377.
• Nerac, meeting at, 103.
• Nevers, Duke of, his timidity, 321.
• Nismes, results of persecution at, 94.
• Michelade of, 276.
• captured by Huguenots, 310.
• order preserved, 458.
• Noises in the air, 436.
• Normandy, distress in, 31.
• Notables, Assembly of, at St. Germains, 175.
• Number of the victims in Paris, 459.
• the provinces, 461.

O.

• Oppède, Baron of, his cruelty, 12.
• Orange, butchery at, 234.
• Organization of Reformed Church, 55.
• Orleans, the court at, 104.
• seized by Huguenots, 197.
• besieged by Duke of Guise, 220.
• Huguenots burned at, 309.
• massacre at, 450.
• Orsini’s mission, 471.
• Orthez, his reply to Charles, 455.

P.

• Palissy, Bernard, patronized by Catherine, 322.
• Paré, Ambrose, tends Coligny’s wounds, 380.
• a witness of the murder, 408.
• escorted to the Louvre, 410.
• singular confession of king to, 435.
• on the death of Charles, 482.
• Pardaillan, his foolish threats, 389.
• murdered in the Louvre, 415.
• Paris, lawlessness of, 76.
• in 1560, 137.
• arming of the citizens, 198.
• outrages in, 207.
• disturbed state of, in winter of 1571, 344.
• panic at news of Genlis’s defeat, 359.
• Parliament of Paris, divisions in, 49.
• Pavannes, martyrdom of, 5.
• Peasantry, condition of, 117.
• Pedlar burned at Velay, 36.
• Petrucci cuts off the admiral’s head, 409.
• Philip II. intrigues against France, 160, 176.
• treasonable correspondence with Triumvirate, 209.
• offers aid to France, 316.
• threatens war, 329.
• joy at the massacre, 467.
• Philippa de Lunz burned, 42.
• Philippe Richarde, the king’s Huguenot nurse, 481.
• Pieds Nus, les, their atrocities, 226.
• Pius V., congratulatory letters, 289, 298, 306.
• advises continuance of war, 314.
• Placards, affair of, 7.
• inflammatory, 42.
• Pluviers, Huguenot retaliation at, 216.
• Poissy, colloquy at, 166.
• opened, 169.
• Poitiers, severities at, 74.
• Politiques, les, 286, 315, 328, 330.
• Poltrot murders Francis of Guise, 221.
• extolled as a martyr by Huguenots, 223.
• Pontoise, the States of, 163.
• Population in 1560, 122.
• Pré aux Clercs, psalm-singing, 46.
• Progress of reform, 31.
• Provinces of France, 113.
• Provins, brutal scene at, 135.
• grievances, 149.
• rejoicings at news of Jarnac, 299.
• flight of the Huguenots, 457.
• Provost of Paris, king’s instructions to, 399.
• Punishments, 133.

Q.

• Quentin, Jean, orator of the clergy, 152.
• speech at Orleans, 154.

R.

• Raleigh, Walter, joins the Huguenots, 294.
• opinion of Condé, 299.
• Ramus, Peter, murdered, 423.
• Reformed Church, its organization, 55.
• doctrines, their rapid extension, 174.
• Regnier de la Planche, 87.
• Reiters, their cupidity, 275, 281.
• Relics, abuse of, 4.
• Religious wars, First, 195.
• Second, 269.
• Third, 291.
• Renaudie, Bary de la, 79, 81.
• Rennes, disturbances at, 156.
• Rents in Auvergne, 117.
• Revival of learning, 3.
• Roads in France, 114.
• Roche-Abeille, battle of, 302.
• Rochelle, violence at, 236.
• besieged by Anjou, 474.
• siege raised, 474.
• Rome, exultation at, 466.
• Romorantin, edict of, 88.
• Ronsard, the poet, 226.
• Rouen, ballet at, 141.
• besieged, 213.
• reprisals at, 214.
• the massacre at, 452.
• Rue St. Jacques, affair of, 40.

S.

• Sadolet, his charity, 15.
• St. André, 66.
• joins the Triumvirate, 163.
• killed at Dreux, 219.
• St. Calais, monks of, 238.
• Croix; see Santa Croce.
• Cyr, Count of, his desperate charge, 305.
• Denis, battle of, 272.
• Germains, Notables at, 182.
• peace of, 314.
• Hérem refuses to obey order, 454.
• Médard, riot of, 181.
• Quentin, defeat at, 40.
• Salviati’s report of the massacre, 418.
• Sancerre, the siege of, 476.
• capitulates, 477.
• Santa Croce praises Reformers, 159.
• describes the state of Paris, 182.
• praises the admiral, 410.
• Saverne, conference at, 186.
• Senlis, Huguenots exiled, 456.
• Sens, massacre at, 199.
• Sermons and congregations, 173.
• Shrove-Tuesday plot, 478.
• Sigognes, governor of Dieppe, 288.
• Silly, Jacques de, orator of the nobles, 152.
• speech at Orleans, 152.
• Sisteron, massacre at, 200.
• deserted by Huguenots, 237.
• Soubise, his resistance, 422.
• indignities to corpse, 415.
• States-General of Orleans, 148.
• opened by king, 150.
• Street architecture, 135.
• Strozzi, Cardinal, his atrocities, 232.
• Strozzi, Colonel-general, captured at Roche-Abeille, 303.
• drowns the camp-followers, 315.
• unpopular in army, 320.
• Stuart, Robert, murders the constable, 273.
• Sully escapes the massacre, 428.
• Sumptuary laws, 120.
• Superstitions, 131.
• Synod, first Reformed, meets in Paris, 54.
• of Poissy, impracticable temper of Huguenot ministers, 173.
• of Rochelle, 321.

T.

• Tailor, martyrdom of a, 31.
• Talcy, interview at, 205.
• Tavannes suggests ecclesiastical reforms, 93.
• plunders Macon, 237.
• appointed military superintendent during massacre, 398.
• complains of apathy of citizens, 400.
• sanguinary cry, 447.
• Taverny, stout resistance of, 422.
• Taxation in 1560, 123.
• Teligny, his mission to the king, 334.
• marries the admiral’s daughter, 334.
• sent in pursuit of Maurevel, 381.
• last night with Coligny, 403.
• murdered, 412.
• Tende, Count of, 447.
• Thomas of St. Paul burned, 17.
• Thoury, negotiations at, 204.
• “Tiger,” the, a satire, 90.
• note on the, 111.
• Tocsin rung, 413.
• Tossinghi steals the admiral’s gold chain, 409.
• Toulon in 1560, 143.
• Toulouse, massacres at, 237, 453.
• Tournament in Paris, 57.
• Tours, massacre at, 211.
• Traveling in France, 114.
• Trent, instructions to Council of, 92.
• Council of, 245.
• Triumvirate, the, formed, 163.
• treasonable correspondence with Philip II., 209.
• Troyes, the massacre at, 452.

V.

• Valence, reform in, 96.
• Vaudois, massacre of, 12.
• Vassy, massacre at, 187.
• Catholic exultation over, 190.
• Velay, contests in, 36.
• Vendome, meeting at, 72.
• Victims, number of, 459, 461.
• Vigor, Simon, ferocious sermon of, 177.
• Villars, Count of, describes state of Nismes, 94.
• Villemangis beheaded, 84.

W.

• Wages in 1560, 117.
• Walsingham on Anjou’s ambition, 316.
• opinion of king, 336.
• letter on defeat of Genlis, 359.
• on war in Flanders, 360.
• report of meeting at Montpipeau, 364.
• describes the execution of Briquemaut, 443.
• Wild animals in France, 115.