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

dig up the roots," but were afterwards saved, "as by
miracle." Queen Margaret, the newly-married wife
of Navarre, throwing herself on her knees before
the king and earnestly begging the life of her
husband, "the King granted it to her with great
difficulty, although she was his good sister."[13]
Meanwhile, to keep up the delusion to the last, the
king rode out on horseback in the afternoon, and
the queen had her court circle as usual.
Footnotes:
1. Sully, tom. 1, livr. 1, p. 43.
2. Gulzot, volume 3, p. 378.
3. Margaret is thought to have had a preference
for the young Duke of Guise.
4. Platina, Vit. Sore. Pont., p. 300; Venetia, 1600.
Both Platina and Gabutius have given us lives
of Pius V; they are little else than a record of
battles and bloodshed.
5. Sully, tom. 1, livr. 1, p. 54.
6. Brantome, volume 8, p. 184.
7. Davila, lib. 5, p. 269.
8. Maimbourg says that the former occupants
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