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

at Rome in October, 1572, entitled, Lo
Stratagema di Carolo IX, Re di Francia, contra
gli Ugonotti rebelli di Dio et suoi: descritto dal
Signor Camillo Capilupi. See also Mendham.
Life of Pius V, pp. 184-187; Lond., 1832.
9. Guizot, volume 3, p. 383.
10. Sully, tom. 1, livr. 1, pp. 37,38.
11. The Abbe Anquetil was the first, or among the
first, to propound this theory of the massacre
in the interests of the Church of Rome. He lays
the blame entirely on Catherine, who was
alarmed at the confidence her son placed in the
admiral. The same theory has since been
elaborately set forth by others, especially by
the historian Lingard. The main evidence on
which it rests is the statement of the Duke of
Anjou to his physician Miron, on his journey
to Poland, which first appeared in the
Memoires d'Etat de Villeroy. That statement is
exceedingly apocryphal. There is no proof that
it ever was made by Anjou. The same is to be
said of the reported conversation of Charles IX
with his mother on their return from visiting
Coligny. It is so improbable that we cannot
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