119; _Histoire de l'Etat de France, Cant de la Republique que de la Religion, sous Francois II.,_ by L.Regnier, Sieur de la Planche.] She demanded that at any rate able lawyers might act as counsel for her husband.

Peter Robert and Francis de Marillac, advocates of renown in the Parliament of Paris, were appointed by the king for that purpose, but their assistance proved perfectly useless; on the 26th of November, 1560, the Prince of Conde was sentenced to death; and the sentence was to be carried out on the 10th of December, the very day of the opening of the states-general.

Most of the historians say that, when it came to the question of signing it, three judges only, Chancellor de l'Hospital, the councillor of state, Duportail, and the aged Count of Sancerre, Louis de Bueil, refused to put their names to it.

"For my part," says the scrupulous De Thou, "I can see nothing quite certain as to all that.

I believe that the sentence of death was drawn up and not signed.