The marriage of Princess Renee of France, daughter of Louis XII., with Duke Hercules of Ferrara, was concluded, and the preparations for its celebration were going on at Fontainebleau, when, on Monday, June 1, 1528, the day after the Feast of Pentecost, "some heretics came by night," says the Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris, "to an image of Notre-Dame de Pierre, which is at a corner of the street behind the church of Petit St.Antoine; to the which image they gave several blows with their weapons, and cut off her head and that of her little child, Our Lord.

But it was never known who the image-breakers were.
[Illustration: Heretic Iconoclasts----201] The king, being then at Paris, and being advertised thereof, was so wroth and upset that, it is said, he wept right sore.

And, incontinently, during the two days following, he caused it to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet throughout the cross-roads of the city that if any persons knew who had done it they should make their report and statement to justice and to him, and he would give them a thousand crowns of gold.
Nevertheless nothing could be known about it, although the king showed great diligence in the matter, and had officers commissioned to go from house to house to make inquiry.

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