Epistola Ioannis Monlucii, episcopi Valentini regis Gallorum legati ad Poloni[a]e Ordines de Illustrissimo Andium duce in Regnum Polonicum allegendo

But this lie can be easily refuted: for in the year that followed the first civil war, the Prince of Condé, the Admiral, and all who have now been killed, and very many others who perished in the civil wars, were in Paris for four whole months. From their number, eight who were then the principal men present with the Admiral, and at least four of whom slept in his very bedchamber, treacherously murdered a noble man and a most excellent Duke. He was called Charry, from Gascony, commander of ten cohorts of musketeers, which had been employed for the protection of the Royal court since the very first French riots. By this crime, perpetrated in the primary city of all Gaul, which is most hostile to the Evangelicals, and in the very face of the King, the Parisian populace could only be restrained from sedition with great difficulty. Certainly, it would have been easy for the King at that time to avenge the injury brought upon him with the utmost reason, and to derive the blame for the slaughter onto the unbridled populace and onto the cohorts raging because of the lost Duke. They all also met at Moulins (that city is of the Bourbons), and by some fate it happened then that the Admiral argued bitterly before the King with the Duke of Nevers, so that the matter seemed to be very little removed from daggers and weapons. They could, therefore, on this occasion being offered, have all been killed, with the blame for the slaughter attributed to the Duke who had been offended,