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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2010
“NO MORE FAITHFUL AND BETTER SUBJECTS THAN THEY”
Sire, the leaders of this city of Chartres have been advised to send their deputies to you in order to recount to Your Majesty all that was done and all that occurred during the siege of the said city. I very much wanted to have this letter accompany the deputies to serve as testimony to the efforts they have made since I arrived here for your service, of which I will not be silent, but will declare to Your Majesty that I found them to be so faithful and devoted to all that concerned your interest that all I commanded them they promptly carried out, and I do think, Sire, that you have under your authority no more faithful and better subjects than they.
So wrote Nicolas des Essars, sieur de Linières, military governor of Chartres, to Charles IX on March 30, 1568, a few days after the formal promulgation of the peace treaty which had brought the second and shortest of the civil wars to an end. Linières' effusive praise was in part self-congratulatory. He, after all, had just led the people of Chartres and a portion of the royal army in a successful two-week-long defense of the city.
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