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Machault, Jean-Baptiste, 375 , 438

Machiavélisme , 116 n, 472

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 465 ;

in history of Gaillard, 113 ;

influence on parlementaires, 17 ;

Pasquier on, 116

Mâcon, merchants of, 130

Magistrates. See Parlementaires

Maillard, André, 417 , 418 ;

Advertissement au Roy , 460

Mainstream. See Parlementaires, mainstream

Maître des requêtes (office), 35 ;

increase in numbers of, 155

Major, J. Russell, 59 , 274

Marburg, Colloquy of, 204

Mardi Gras, 141

Marguerite d'Angoulême, 205 ;

in Berquin case, 202 ;

correspondence with Briçonnet, 192 ;

embassy to Madrid, 200 ;

embassy to Spain, 199 ;

Heptaméron , 191 ;

patronage of Lefèvre, 203 ;

patronage of Marot, 233 n;

regency of, 10 ;

Robertet's aid to, 9 ;

sponsorship of religious dissent, 172 , 181 , 189 , 190

Marguerite de Navarre. See Marguerite d'Angoulême

Marguerite de Valois, 316 , 450 -51

Marie de Guise, 352

Marillac, Charles de (archbishop of Vienne), 242

Marillac, Gabriel, 218

Marillac family, 33 ;

immigration to Paris, 44

Marion, Simon, 29 , 33

Marie, Claude de, 22

Marot, Clément:

banning of works, 209 ;

Blason du bonnet carré , 155 ;

exile of, 193 ;

François's protection of, 191 ;

translation of Psalms, 233 n

Marriage:

advancement by, 54 -55, 144 ;

clandestine, 54 ;

of clergy, 299 ;

importance to society, 125 -26;

inheritance of

property in, 53 -54;

Protestant, 258 ;

tenderness in, 124

Martel, Charles, 406 n

Martin, Victor, 308 , 309 , 455 n;

on Christophe de Thou, 347 , 348 , 349 ;

on Gallicanism, 456 , 461 ;

on Trent decrees, 346 , 442 , 453 , 454 , 456

Martineau, Nicolas, 218

Mary Stuart (queen of Scots):

depiction as martyr, 352 ;

Du Vair's funeral oration for, 345 ;

marriage to François II, 238

Masparault, Pierre, 402

Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 185 , 307 , 327 ;

causes of, 317 , 320 ;

Parlement's role in, 317 -18, 484 ;

Protestant accounts of, 317

Maugis, Édouard, 81 , 82 , 403 , 439 ;

on abuse of rules, 83 n;

on Bull of Gregory XIV, 398 ;

on duc of Mayenne, 405 ;

on edicts of pacification, 314 ;

on François Olivier, 19 ;

on Henri II, 223 -24;

on L'Estoile, 483 -84;

on Lizet's disgrace, 220 n;

on succession of Henri IV, 406

Mayenne, duc de:

accommodation with Henri IV, 393 , 407 ;

advisers of, 385 ;

in l'affaire Brisson, 392 -93;

appointments to Parlement, 392 ;

arrest of printers, 416 ;

arrival in Paris, 376 , 377 ;

billets of exile, 421 n;

departure from Paris, 429 ;

in Estates of the League, 402 , 404 ;

and Jean Le Maistre, 423 ;

L'Estoile on, 378 , 420 ;

as lieutenant général, 377 -78, 383 , 386 ;

loss of authority, 400 , 406 , 423 ;

and papal legate, 420 -21, 422 , 424 ;

relations with politiques , 423 -24;

revocation of commands, 435 ;

satires on, 415 -16;

in Satyre Ménippée , 427 , 429 ;

and Spanish Ambassador, 405 , 422 , 423 , 424 -25, 484 ;

in succession debate, 409 ;

and Third Party, 393 , 398

Mayenniste faction:

Parisian bourgeoisie in, 340 ;

parlementaires in, 387 ;

struggle with Sixteen, 378 , 386 , 390 , 392 , 402

Mayer, C. A., 192 -93

Meaux: group of, 182 , 198 , 212 ;

surrender to Henri IV, 416 -17

Medici, Alexander de' (cardinal of Florence), 443

Meditations (Savonarola), 152

Melanchthon, Philip, 194

Mémoires-Journaux (L'Estoile), 37 , 38 , 119 , 140 -43;

l'affaire Brisson in, 390 -91;

anti-Spanish sentiment in, 388 ;

Armada in, 366 -67;

Christophe de Thou in, 139 ;

clergy in, 350 , 351 ;

comparison with Registers, 483 ;

contents of, 100 -104;

country life in, 152 ;

crime in, 145 -46;

Day of the Barricades in, 187 n, 358 -60;

Edict of Nantes in, 446 , 447 -48, 449 n;

ephemera in, 103 , 141 , 142 ;

Estates of the League in, 404 ;

executions in, 141 ;

greed in, 131 , 132 , 143 ;

Guise assassinations in, 372 -74;

Henri III in, 322 -23, 342 , 371 ;

Henri IV in, 142 , 379 -80, 409 -10, 436 ;

Henri IV's coronation in, 427 ;

Henri IV's military victories in, 385 ;

ligueur preachers in, 388 -89;

literary quality of, 484 ;

manuscripts of, 39 ;

Mary Stuart in, 352 ;

miracles in, 142 ;

money in, 131 -32;

Montaigne in, 485 ;

Paris League in, 38 , 39 n, 332 , 334 -35;

parlementaire ideals in, 140 -41;

Parlement of Châlons in, 396 ;

Parlement of Tours in, 436 -37;

Pierre (I) Séguier in, 138 -39;

pourparler de Paris in, 255 -56;

proverbs in, 143 ;

reliability of, 483 -85;

religious belief in, 168 -70;

siege of Paris in, 386 ;

Sixteen in, 375 , 380 , 391 -92, 462 ;

sorcery in, 146 ;

superstition in, 141 -42, 171 , 350 ;

on table of Madame de Montpensier, 350 ;

Trent decrees in, 444 n.

See also L'Estoile, Pierre de

Mendoza, Diego de, Duke of Feria (Spanish ambassador), 382 n, 387 , 408 , 409 ;

departure from Paris, 432 ;

and duc de Mayenne, 405 , 422 , 423 , 424 -25, 484 ;

and Jean Le Maistre, 423 ;

truce with politiques , 405

Merchants:

banishment by Henri IV, 439 ;

in Bureau de Ville, 46 ;

libraries of, 99 ;

mobility of, 130 -31;

in Paris League, 393 ;

place in bourgeoisie, 461

Mercuriales : of 1557, 465 ;

of April (1559), 234 , 235 ;

of June 10 (1559), 20 , 22 , 235 -37, 476

Mésalllance , 54 , 128

Mesmes, Henri de, 28 ;

intellectual leadership of, 104

Mesmes, Jean de, 237

Mesnager, Jean, 198

Mesnard, Paul, 108

Mesnard, Pierre, 470 -71

Metz, siege of, 223 , 227

Michelet, 325

Midi:

First Civil War in, 283 ;

Protestant robins in, 261 -62

Mignons (royal favorites), 322 , 323 , 334 , 351

Minard, Antoine:

assassination of, 239 , 258 ;

as président, 235 , 237

Miracles, false, 142

Miron, François de, 369

Mobility, sixteenth century, 54 -55, 130 -31, 469

Molé, Édouard, 376 , 407 ;

and Henri IV's entry into Paris, 430 ;

reinstatement in Parlement, 438 ;

on succession of Infanta Isabella, 405 -6

La Monarchie de France (Seyssel), 12 , 63 -64;

influence of, 61 ;

nationalism in, 93

Monarchy, Aristotelian concept of, 340

Monarchy, French:

Achille de Harlay on, 343 -44;

after Hundred Years War, 7 ;

centralization of, 274 ;

Christian ideal of, 161 , 411 -12;

creditors of, 156 ;

defense of Gallicanism, 460 ;

encroachment on constitution, 66 ;

in history of Gaillard, 114 -15;

importance of religion to, 63 -64, 417 -18;

indivisibility of, 60 , 121 ;

juridical basis of authority, 76 ;

limitations on, 62 , 63 -65, 78 , 80 ;

Loisel on, 139 ;

obligations of, 67 , 68 , 411 , 471 ;

papal authority over, 415 ;

parlementaire loyalty to, 243 , 319 , 322 n, 421 , 460 , 469 ;

power to establish courts, 86 n;

relationship with papacy, 175 ;

remission of crimes, 148 ;

respect for customary law, 66

Monarchy, French Bourbon:

absolutism of, 59 , 419 ;

rise to power, 39

Monarchy, French Capetian, 163 , 385

Monarchy, French Valois:

additions to Parlement, 41 ;

attendance at Parlement, 73 , 294 -95;

collaboration with parlementaire religious policy, 207 -14;

conflicts with Parlement, 67 -77, 195 -201;

feuds within, 186 ;

innovations of, 73 ;

itinerant court of, 44 ;

limitations on, 59 ;

overthrow of, 331 ;

policy toward heresy, 19 , 181 , 182 , 196 , 205 , 207 -13;

religious beliefs of, 190 , 191 -92;

religious policy of, 191 , 205 , 207 , 231 , 290 ;

special commissions of, 48 ;

value of service to, 49 -50;

venality of, 9 , 47 , 71

Monluc, Blaise de, 262

Monluc, Jean de (bishop of Valence), 251 ;

at Fontainebleau council, 242 ;

religious views of, 294 ;

service to Catherine de Médicis, 278

Montaigne, Michel de, 18 ;

L'Estoile on, 485 ;

and Pasquier, 33 ;

on religious belief, 166 ;

on religious dissent, 169 -70;

on succession of Henri IV, 370 -71

Montcontour, victory of, 321

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, 473

Monthelon, François de, 137 , 368

Montmirail, Étienne, 218

Montmorency, Anne de (constable), 213 ;

capture in First Civil War, 283 ;

imprisonment by Spanish, 232 ;

influence of, 220 , 238 ;

at mercuriale of June (1559), 235 -36;

in siege of Metz, 223 , 227 ;

sons of, 259 , 260 n;

in Triumvirate, 251 , 277 ;

violence against Protestants, 270

Montmorency, François de. and publication of Edict of January, 265 ;

religious beliefs of, 284 ;

and religious unrest in Paris, 268 -69, 313

Montmorency, house of, 21 ;

and L'Hôpital, 326 ;

patronage of Pasquier, 27 ;

protégés of, 22 ;

religion of, 260 ;

rivalry with Bourbons, 428

Montmorency-Damville, Henry of, 260 n

Montpensier, duc de, 285 ;

in Day of the Barricades, 359

Montpensier, Madame, 360 ,

preachers of, 379 ;

tableau of, 350 , 352 , 353 , 432

Moral values, of parlementaires, 120 n, 134 -35

More, Thomas, 109 ;

on war, 157

Morin de Cromé, Louis, 390 , 416 n

Morosini, Francesco, 365 -66

Morvilliers, Jean de (bishop of Orléans), 242

Mos gallicus , 93

Motherhood, as career, 54

Mouchy, Antoine de, 237

Muret, Marc-Antoine, 110