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

a roof of rusty brown tiles. The front is
ornamented with two terminating round
towers: the whole edifice being what doubtless
Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, was in the days
of Queen Mary Stuart--that is, a quadrangular
building with a castellated front. The place is
now a barrack, but the French sentinel at the
gate kindly gives permission for the visitor to
inspect the interior. It is a small paved court,
having a well in the center, shaded by two tall
trees, while portions of the wall are clothed
with a vine and a few flowering shrubs. Such
is the aspect of this old house, neglected now,
and abandoned to the occupancy of soldiers,
but which in its time has received many a
crowned head, and whose chief claim to glory
or infamy must lie in this--that it is linked for
ever with one of the greatest crimes of an age
of great crimes.
3. De Thou, livr. 37 (volume 5, p. 35).
4. Davila, lib. 3, p. 145.
5. Ibid., lib. 3, p. 146.
6. Mem. de Tavannes, p. 282.
7. Maimbourg, Hist. du Calvinisme, livr. 5, p.
256