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We have it on record that before the Coht he received the strongest hints of the peril which

threatened hi was handed to hier in black, and by hi of

Navarre We are told further that when he took his final leave, about

the hour of eleven, he found the courtyard brilliantly lighted, and the

three couards--Swiss, Scotch, and French--drawn up in ranked

array froate which opened on the

street But, the chronicler adds, neither this precaution, sinister as

it appeared to sorave farehich

Raentleenerous confidence

M de Tignonville was young and less versed in danger than the Governor

of Rochelle; with hiht have been different

But he left the Louvre an hour earlier--at a ti to us in the light cast by cohts, moreover, as he crossed the

courtyard, were otherwise ened to his two servants to follow hi; nor did he shake off his reverie until he reached the

corner of the Rue Baillet Here the voices of the Sho stood on

guard opposite Coligny's lodgings, at the end of the Rue Bethizy, could

be plainly heard They had kindled a fire in an iron basket set in the