This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. FROM THE ACCESSION OF CHARLES IX TO THE MASSACRE AT VASSY. [1530-1562.] Character of the Boy-King--Portrait of Catherine--The States-General-- The Chancellor's Address--Speeches of the Three Orators--Agitation in the Provinces--Religious Amnesty--Edict of July--Provincial Assemblies ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. FROM THE ACCESSION OF CHARLES IX TO THE MASSACRE AT VASSY. [1530-1562.] Character of the Boy-King--Portrait of Catherine--The States-General-- The Chancellor's Address--Speeches of the Three Orators--Agitation in the Provinces--Religious Amnesty--Edict of July--Provincial Assemblies Convoked--Instructions of the Isle of France--The Triumvirate--States of Pontoise--Proposals of Reform--Colloquy of Poissy--Beza--Conference in the Queen's Chamber--King's Speech--Beza's Defense--Catherine's Liberal Spirit--Spread of New Doctrines--Monster Congregations --The Guises Intrigue with Spain--Violence of the Clergy--Massacres at Cahors and Aurillac--Amiens--Huguenot Outrages--Riot of St. Medard --Notables at St. Germains--Edict of January, 1562--Violence at Dijon and Aix--Anthony's Apostasy--The Duke and the Cardinal at Saverne --Massacre at Vassy--Both Parties Arm--Guise Enters Paris--Plot to Seize the King. The accession of Charles IX., a child not eleven years old, was a revolution. " Now we fell from a fever into a frenzy," quaintly writes an old historian;' " a reign cursed in the city and cursed in the field; cursed in the beginning and cursed in the ending."* The new king is described by the Venetian embassador as an amiable, handsome boy, with fine eyes and graceful carriage, eating and drinking little, quick-witted and spirited, gentle and liberaLf The same gossiping writer supplies a striking picture of the * A General Hist, of France, by John do Scrres (Serranus). Fol. Lond. 1624, p. 692. t Beza had a favorable opinion of the boy-king, but not of the mother: " " Do rege optimam spem esse, et hoc tibi, ut certissimum, confirmo. Sed puer est et matrem habet." Beza to Haller, 24th January, 1561, in Baum's Beza, ii. p. 25, App. K...
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