[47] Mem. de la Regence de Marie de Medicis, pp. 5-14.  D’Estrees, Mem., edition Michaud, pp. 375, 376.

[48] Hist. de la Vie du Duc d’Epernon, pp. 248, 249.

[49] Mem. de la Regence, pp. 6-8.  Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 7, 8.  D’Estrees, Mem. p. 376.

[50] M. de Souvre was the governor of Louis XIII.

[51] L’Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 97, 98.

[52] Stefano Galigai, known from his extreme ugliness as “the baboon of the Court.”  When he went to take possession of his abbey the monks refused to receive him as their abbot, alleging that they had been accustomed to be governed by princes, and not by carpenters like himself, who had been seen to handle the plane and the saw.  Stefano Galigai withdrew into Italy after the execution of his relatives.

[53] L’Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 143, 144.

[54] Mezeray, vol. xi. p. 5.

[55] Rambure, unpublished Mem. vol. vi. pp. 44, 45.

[56] L’Etoile, vol. iv. p. 157.

[57] Rambure, MS. Mem. vol. vi, p. 79.

[58] Jacques Auguste de Thou was the representative of an ancient family of Champagne, celebrated alike in the magistracy and the Church.  One of his ancestors, Nicolas de Thou, clerk of the parliamentary council, and Bishop of Chartres, performed the coronation service of Henri IV in 1594, and died in 1598.  Christophe de Thou, the brother of Nicolas, was first president of the Parliament of Paris, chancellor to the Ducs d’Anjou and d’Alencon, and a faithful servant of Henri II, Charles IX, and Henri III, whom he served with untiring zeal during the intestine troubles of the kingdom.  He died in 1582.  His son, the subject of the present note, embraced the legal profession, and became, from parliamentary councillor, president a mortier.  In 1586, after the day of the Barricades, he left Paris, and entered the service of Henri III, who confided to him several missions in England and Italy.  On the accession of Henri IV, De Thou eagerly embraced his interests, and by this sovereign he was also employed in negotiations of importance.  At the death of Amyot he was appointed grand master of the King’s library.  During the regency of Marie de Medicis he became director-general of finance, and was deputed, in conjunction with Cardinal Duperron, to reform the University of Paris, and to aid in the construction of the Royal College.  Posterity is indebted to De Thou for a History of his time, in one hundred and thirty-eight books, embracing sixty years, from 1545 to 1607.  His style is terse, elevated, and elegant, and the work is full of elaborate and most minute detail.  De Thou died in 1617.

[59] L’Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 164-169.

[60] Mezeray, vol. xi. pp. 9, 10.