by Edwin D. Mead. Boston, 1909. The "Great
Design" appeared originally in the last volume
of Sully Mémoires, although many references
to it are scattered through preceding pages and
volumes. Its authenticity has been the subject of
long and heated debate. Many have charged
Sully "not only with casting the 'Great Design'
in the shape in which we have it, but with its sheer
fabrication, for some purpose of his own." Yet
it would appear that "the respective qualities of
the mind of Henry and Sully" indicate that Henry
might well have conceived the scheme, while Sully
elaborated it.

Thou Jacques Auguste de. Histoire universelle
depuis 1543 jusqu'en 1607, traduite sur l'édition
latine de Londres. 16 vols. London and Paris,
1734. Jacques Auguste de Thou ( 1553-1617)
was a Politique. A close friend of Henry IV, and
an influential member of the Parlement of Paris,
he undoubtedly participated in many of the in-
cidents described in his work. But his history is
especially important because of its surprising im-
partiality. For example, he neither praises nor
supports the administration of Henry IV. De
Thou had a quite modern belief in the supremacy
of the state and religious toleration.

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