History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 2

Page THE FIRST CIVIL WAR 3 Unsatisfactory Character of the Edict of January 3 Huguenot Leaders urge its Observance 3 Seditious Sermons 5 Opposition of Parliaments 6 New Conferen...

THE PEACE OF AMBOISE AND THE BAYONNE CONFERENCE 126 Charles demands Havre of the English 126 The Siege 127 How the Peace was received 128 Vexatious Delays in Normandy 129 The No...

THE SECOND CIVIL WAR AND THE SHORT PEACE 203 Coligny's Pacific Counsels 203 Rumors of Plots to destroy the Huguenots 203 D'Andelot's Warlike Counsels prevail 204 Cardinal Lorrai...

THE THIRD CIVIL WAR 274 Relative Advantages of Huguenots and Roman Catholics 274 Enthusiasm of Huguenot Youth 274 Enlistment of Agrippa d'Aubigne 275 The Court proscribes the Re...

THE PEACE OF ST. GERMAIN 367 Sincerity of the Peace 367 The Designs of Catharine de' Medici 369 Charles the Ninth in Earnest 370 Tears out the Parliament Record against Cardinal...

THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY 426 The Huguenot Nobles reach Paris 426 The Betrothal of Henry of Navarre to Margaret of Valois 427 Entertainment in the Louvre 429 Coligny...

THE MASSACRE IN THE PROVINCES, AND THE RECEPTION OF THE TIDINGS ABROAD 501 The Massacre in the Provinces 501 The Verbal Orders 502 Instructions to Montsoreau at Saumur 503 Two K...

THE SEQUEL OF THE MASSACRE, TO THE DEATH OF CHARLES THE NINTH 572 Widespread Terror 572 La Rochelle and other Cities in Huguenot Hands 573 Nismes and Montauban 573 La Rochelle t...

The Edict of January was on its very face a compromise, and as such rested on no firm foundation. Inconsistent with itself, it fully satisfied neither Huguenot nor Roman Catholi...

Scarcely had the Edict of Amboise been signed when a demand was made upon the English queen for the city of Havre, placed in her possession by the Huguenots, as a pledge for the...

A treacherous peace or an open war was now apparently the only alternative offered to the Huguenots. In reality, however, they believed themselves to be denied even the unwelcom...

Having narrowly escaped falling into the hands of their treacherous enemies, and finding themselves compelled once more to take up arms in defence of their own lives and the lib...

respecting his conduct, and saying that "les bonnes gens en seront offensez, les malins en feront leur risee," so now Coligny and the Huguenot gentlemen of his suite united with...

[727] "Nihil est enim ea pietate misericordiaque crudelius, quae in impios et ultima supplicia meritos confertur." Pius V. to Charles IX., Oct. 20, 1569. Pii V. Epistolae (Antwe...

A problem of cardinal importance here confronts us, in the inquiry whether the peace which had at length dawned upon France was or was not concluded in good faith by the young k...

conversation; but it is substantially the same as the briefer sketch in the Tocsain contre les massacreurs de France, Rheims 1579, pp. 78, 79--a treatise of which the preface (L...

The marriage of Henry of Navarre and Margaret of Valois had been delayed in consequence of the death of the bridegroom's mother, but could now no longer be deferred. The young q...

Capilupi, Lo stratagema di Carlo IX. (1574), 33, etc.; Journal d'un cure ligueur (Jehan de la Fosse), 148, 149; Relation of Olaegui, secretary of D. de Cuniga, Spanish ambassado...

persistent attempts to secure his death solely to Archan (or Larchant), who had _married_ this sister; and they state that, at her death, she left her property, including what s...

The massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day would have been terrible enough had it been confined to Paris, for its victims in that single city were to be reckoned by thousands. Charle...

The blow had been struck by which the Huguenots were to be exterminated. If a single adherent of the reformed faith still lived in Paris, he dared not show his face. France had,...

[1314] Agrippa d'Aubigne, i. 104. It would be a great relief could we believe that inordinate fondness for the dance was the chief vice of the French court. Unfortunately the mo...

sent to intercept Count of Aremberg, ii. 214; spirited remonstrance (ascribed to him) addressed to Catharine de' Medici, ii. 252, 253; his escape from Brittany to La Rochelle, i...

Bordeaux, the boldness of the "Lutherans" of, according to the archbishop of the city, i. 221; oppression to which the Protestants were subjected, ii. 164; massacre of, Oct., 15...

Cateau-Cambresis, the peace of, April 3, 1559, i. 322; its disgraceful and disastrous conditions, i. 323; a secret treaty for the extermination of the Protestants supposed, with...

Chatillon, Odet de, Cardinal, elder brother of Admiral Coligny, appointed by Paul IV. one of the three inquisitors-general, i. 299; his Protestant proclivities, ib.; riot at Bea...

Longjumeau, edict of pacification of, March 23, 1568, ii. 234; the peace opposed by Coligny, and favored by Conde, ii. 235; discussion of the question of the sincerity of the co...

Montgomery, Gabriel, Count of, captain of the Scotch guard, mortally wounds Henry II. in the tournament, i. 339; commands the Protestants at Rouen, ii. 78; escapes with D'Andelo...

Peace of Amboise, March 19, 1563, terminating the first civil war, ii. 115; peace of Longjumeau, or "short" peace, after the second civil war, ii. 234; number of Protestants mur...

Rochelle, La, the city of, secured for the Prince of Conde by the skill of Francois de la Noue, ii. 226, seq.; the alleged payment to Catharine de' Medici, in order to be free f...

his unmanly speech at the "lit de justice," when Charles IX. assumes the responsibility of the massacre, ii. 493; presides at the trial of La Mole and Coconnas, ii. 629.