This prince raised a body of foreign troops in 1575, and distinguished himself greatly at Coutras in 1587.

He died in the following year, having, as was asserted, been poisoned by his wife, Charlotte de la Tremouille, at St-Jean-d'Angely.
[305] Montfaucon, vol.v.p.

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[306] This hotel was the property of the Bishop of Bourges, known as M.
de Sens, who died in September 1606 at the age of seventy-nine years, and who was interred at Notre-Dame, at his own request, without pomp or ceremony of any description.

This prelate had been involved in so many delicate, but withal conspicuous affairs, that he had become the object of very general curiosity and slander.

At the commencement of the reign of Henri IV a satire made its appearance, entitled, "Library of Madame de Montpensier, brought to light by the advice of Cornac, and with the consent of the Sieur de Beaulieu, her equerry," in which mention was made of a supposititious work called, "The Art of not Believing in God," by M.de Bourges, in which an attempt was made to convict the prelate of atheism.