Bertrand De Salignac Fenelon, marquis de la Mothe, a French diplomatist, died in 1589. After having served with distinction in the army, he was ambassador to England at the time of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and was charged by Charles IX. to endeavor to appease the resentment of Elizabeth. The most important of his numerous writings are: Me-moires touchant V Angleterre et la Suisse, ou Sommaire de la negotiation en 1571; Ne'go-ciations de la Mothe Fenelon et de Michel, sieur de Mauvissiere, en Angleterre, containing some curious correspondence between Catharine de' Medici and her son Charles IX. relating to Queen Elizabeth, Mary queen of Scots, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew; and Depeches de M. de la Mothe Fenelon. These were published in the Memoires of Castelnau.