OGIER GHISELIN
DE BUSBECQ
VOL. II.
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CROSS OF BOUSBECQUE.
THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
SEIGNEUR OF BOUSBECQUE
KNIGHT, IMPERIAL AMBASSADOR
BY
CHARLES THORNTON FORSTER, M.A.
Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge: Vicar of Hinxton
AND
F. H. BLACKBURNE DANIELL, M.A.
Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: Barrister-at-Law
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1881
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Letters from France to Maximilian—I.-XXXVII. | 3 |
Lett”ers fr”om Fra”nce to Rodolph—I.-LVIII. | 141 |
Appendix | 265 |
Index | 311 |
LETTERS FROM FRANCE.
In illustrating Busbecq’s letters from France reference is frequentlymade to contemporary writers, and it may be useful to thereader to have some idea of their different characters, and positions,and of the historical value of their statements.
(1). J. A. de Thou, the historian, son of Christopher de Thou, Presidentof the Parliament of Paris. Jurist and statesman. Busbecq’s intimatefriend and warm admirer. Quoted as Thuanus. Edition, Geneva,1620, &c.
(2). Pierre de l’Estoile. Audiencier de la Chancellerie de Paris. Aquiet man, who took no part in politics. He kept a diary which is generallyknown as Journal de Henri III. and >Henri IV., but is really hisown private diary during the reigns of those monarchs. Quoted as Del’Estoile. Edition, Paris, 1875, &c.
(3). Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé and Seigneur of Brantôme. Soldierand courtier. Gentleman of the Chamber to Charles IX. and Henri III.His ideas are those of the French Court of that period, and consequentlyhis standard of morality is very low. He was a friend of Alençon, duGuast, Bussy, de Viteaux, La Noue, &c., and a great admirer of Marguerite,to whom he dedicated several of his works. Having