A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times

A Popular History of France From The?by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

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Title: A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume V. of VI.
Author: Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
Release Date: April 8, 2004 [EBook #11955]
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HISTORY OF FRANCE
BY M. GUIZOT

VOLUME V.
LIST OF STEEL ENGRAVINGS:
CASTLE OF PAU FRONTISPIECE.
GABRIELLE D'ESTREES 130
MARIE DE MEDICI. 147
RICHELIEU. 180
LOUIS XIV. 344
TURENNE. 444

LIST OF WOOD-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS.
Henry IV. 11
Henry IV. at Ivry 26
"Do not lose Sight of my White Plume." 30
Rosny Castle 30
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma 32
Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne 35
Sully 37
Lemaitre, Mayenne, and the Archbishop of Lyons 53
Henry IV.'s Abjuration 56
The Castle of Monceaux 91
The Castle of St. Germain in the Reign of Henry IV. 107
The Castle of Fontainbleau 124
Henry IV. and his Ministers 138
The Arsenal in the Reign of Henry IV. 143
The Louvre 145
Concini, Leonora Galigai, and Mary de' Medici 149
Louis XIII. and Albert de Luynes 154
Murder of Marshal d'Ancre 155
Double Duel 188
"Tapping with his Finger-tips on the Window-pane." 191
Henry, Duke of Montmorency, at Castelnaudary 199
The King and the Cardinal 204
Cinq-Mars and De Thou going to Execution 215
The Parliament of Paris reprimanded 217
The Barefoots 221
The Abbot of St. Cyran 234
Demolishing the Fortifications 244
The Harbor of La Rochelle 248
The King and Richelieu at La Rochelle 250
John Guiton's Oath 254
The Defile of Suza Pass 278
Richelieu and Father Joseph 280
Gustavus Adolphus 282
Death of Gustavus and his Page 290
The Palais-Cardinal 305
The Tomb of Richelieu 308
Descartes at Amsterdam 316
The King's Press 323
Peter Corneille 334
The Representation of "the Cid." 335
Corneille at the Hotel Rambouillet 342
The Great Conde 348
Arrest of Broussel 352
Cardinal de Retz 352
"Ah, Wretch, if thy Father saw thee!" 354
President Mole 355
The Great Mademoiselle 373
Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin 394
Death of Mazarin. 399
Fouquet 404
Vaux le Vicomte 405a
Colbert 405
Louis XIV. dismissing Fouquet 407
Louvois 411
William III., Prince of Orange 434
The Brothers Witt 436
Death of Turenne 443
An Exploit of John Bart's 446
Duquesne victorious over Ruyter 446
Marshal Luxembourg 461a
Heinsius 461
Battle of St. Vincent 465a
The Battle of Neerwinden 465
"Here is the King of Spain." 475
News for William III. 481
Bivouac of Louis XIV. 503
The Grand Dauphin 505
Marshal Villars and Prince Eugene 512
Marly 525
Colonnade of the Louvre 525a
The Louvre and the Tuileries 525b
Versailles 526
Vauban 534
The Torture of the Huguenots 552
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 556
Death of Roland the Camisard 569
Abbey of Port-Royal 580
Reading the Decree 581
Bossuet 591
Blaise Pascal 597
Fenelon and the Duke of Burgundy 610
La Rochefoucauld and his fair Friends 629
La Bruyere 633
Corneille reading to Louis XIV. 642
Racine 646
Boileau-Despreaux 650
La Fontaine, Boileau, Moliere, and Racine 657
Moliere 664
Death of Moliere 669
Lebrun 674
Le Poussin and Claude Lorrain 675
Lesueur 676
Mignard 677
Perrault 678

A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.
CHAPTER XXXV.
----HENRY IV., PROTESTANT KING. (1589-1593.)
On the 2d of August, 1589, in the morning, upon his arrival in his quarters at Meudon, Henry of Navarre was saluted by the Protestants King of France. They were about five thousand in an army of forty thousand men. When, at ten o'clock, he entered the camp of the Catholics at St. Cloud, three of their principal leaders, Marshal d'Aumont, and Sires d'Humieres and de Givry, immediately acknowledged him unconditionally, as they had done the day before at the death-bed of Henry III., and they at once set to work to conciliate to him the noblesse of Champagne, Picardy, and Ile-de-France. "Sir," said Givry, "you are the king of the brave; you will be deserted by none but dastards." But the majority of the Catholic leaders received him with such expressions as, "Better die than endure a Huguenot king!" One of them, Francis d'O, formally declared to him that the time had come for him to choose between the insignificance of a King of Navarre and the grandeur of a King of France; if he pretended to the crown, he must first of all abjure. Henry firmly rejected these threatening entreaties, and left their camp with an urgent recommendation, to them to think of it well before bringing dissension into the royal army and the royal party which were protecting their privileges, their property, and their lives against the League. On returning to his quarters, he noticed the arrival of Marshal de Biron, who pressed him to lay hands without delay upon the crown of France, in order to guard it and save it. But, in the evening of that day and on the morrow, at the numerous meetings of the lords to deliberate upon the situation, the ardent Catholics renewed their demand for