Marie and I were present in this action on the side of the King of Navarre, and at the request of that prince hastened to pay such honours to the body of the Vidame as were due to his renown and might serve to evince our gratitude.  A year later his remains were removed from Cahors, and laid where they now rest in his own Abbey Church of Bezers, under a monument which very briefly tells of his stormy life and his valour.  No matter.  He has small need of a monument whose name lives in the history of his country, and whose epitaph is written in the lives of men.

Note.—­The character and conduct of Vidame de Bezers, as they
appear in the above memoir find A Parallel in an account given by
de thou of one of the most remarkable incidents in the massacre
of st. Bartholomew:  “Amid such examples,” He writes, “Of the
ferocity of the city, A thing happened worthy to be related, and
which may perhaps in some degree weigh against these atrocities. 
There was A deadly hatred, which up to this time the intervention
of their friends and neighbours had failed to appease, between
two men—­VEZINS, the lieutenant of HONORATUS of Savoy, Marshal
Villars, A man notable among the nobility of the province for his
valour, but obnoxious to many owing to his brutal disposition
(ferina natura), and Regnier, A young man of like rank and
vigour, but of milder character.  When Regnier then, in the
middle of that great uproar, death meeting his eye everywhere,
was making up his mind to the worst, his door was suddenly burst
open, and VEZINS, with two other men, stood before him sword in
hand.  Upon this Regnier, assured of death, knelt down and asked
mercy of heaven:  But VEZINS