V

Valette, Nogaret de la (duc d'Épernon), 354 -55, 361

Valla, Lorenzo, 106

Vandalism, of icons, 181 , 202 , 475

Vassy, Huguenots massacre at, 270

Vatable, François, 103

Veau, Jean, 447 , 448 n

Venality, 83 ;

Charles Giullart's opposition to, 77 ;

effect on Parlement, 12 , 34 , 53 , 136 ;

François I's use of, 9 , 47 , 82 ;

of Henri II, 223 , 224 ;

of Henri III, 343 ;

Loisel on, 116 ;

Louis Le Caron's attack on, 32 ;

Maugis on, 81 n;

of parlementaire elites, 58 ;

"private," 9,46 , 82 ;

relation to corruption, 53 ;

satirization of, 155 -56;

of Valois monarchy, 9 , 47 , 71

Vendôme, cardinal de, 458 -59

Venice:

affiliations with Gallicans, 457 -58;

Henri IV's embassy to, 444 ;

struggle with papacy, 104 , 118 , 152

Verjus, André, 48 ;

in Berquin case, 194 ;

in commission on blasphemy, 196 ;

interrogation of group de Meaux , 198 ;

investigation of parlementaires, 272 ;

remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197

Versoris, Nicolas, 203

Vices, attribution to lawyers, 156

Villars, Jerome de (archbishop of Vienne), 455

Villeroy, Chancellor:

as adviser to Mayenne, 385 ;

in Day of the Barricades, 359 ;

dismissal of, 367 ;

in rehabilitation of Parlement, 435 ;

as royal spokesman, 362 n, 365 ;

and Trent decrees, 451 , 452 , 454

Viole, Claude:

at mercuriale of June (1559), 236 ;

remonstrance to Louise de Savoie, 197 ;

in trial of Condé, 234 n

Viole, Guillaume, 267 ;

in assembly of St-Germain, 263 ;

in negotiations with Condé, 279 , 280 ;

and profession of faith, 291

Viole, Jacques (I):

attempted arrest of, 237 ;

career of, 25 , 26 ;

in trial of Condé, 275

Virtue:

L'Estoile on, 140 ;

Loisel on, 139 ;

sixteenth-century ideas of, 134

Vivanti, Corrado, 450

Voltaire, 473

Vraye Histoire , 235 , 236 ;

parlementaires in, 245 ;

on trials of 1559, 246

La Vraye Methode qu'on doit tenir en la lecture de l'histoire (Droit de Gaillard), 112 -15;

authors cited in, 113