Protestantism in France From Death of Francis I to Edict of Nantes - James Aitken Wylie

Assembly of Notables at Moulins. But meanwhile
the dark secret of Bayonne had oozed out in so
many quarters, that Conde and Coligny could not
with prudence disregard it, and though they came,
with their confederates, to Moulins, in obedience to
the royal summons, they were so well armed that
Catherine de Medici durst not attempt her grand
stroke.
Footnotes:
1. Davila, lib. 3, p. 147.
2. This chateau has a special and dreadful
interest, and as the Author had an opportunity
on his way to Spain, in 1869, to examine it, he
may here be permitted to sketch the
appearance of its exterior. It is situated on a
low mound immediately adjoining the city
ramparts, hard by the little harbor on which it
looks down. The basement storey is loopholed
for cannon and musketry, and the upper part is
simply a two-story house in the style of the
French chateau of the period, with two rows of
small windows, with their white jalousies, and
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