Memoirs of Henry the Great: And of the Court of France During His Reign, Volume 1Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1824 |
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Page 22 - Des dieux que nous servons connais la différence : Les tiens t'ont commandé le meurtre et la vengeance ; Et le mien , quand ton bras vient de m'assassiner , M'ordonne de te plaindre et de te pardonner.
Page 118 - Every one suspected of being a Calvinist, without any distinction of rank, age, or sex, was indiscriminately massacred. The air resounded with the horrid cries and blasphemous imprecations, of the murderers, the piercing shrieks of the wounded, and the groans of the dying. Headless trunks were every instant precipitated from the windows into the court-yards, or the streets ; the gate-ways were choked up with the bodies of the dead and dying, and the streets presented a spectacle of mangled limbs,...
Page 120 - ... I did not hear what was said, but again and very roughly my mother told me to go. " As soon as I was in my room I threw myself on my knees and prayed God to protect me, though I knew not from what or against whom. " Meanwhile the king, my husband, had gone to bed and sent word to me to come to him. I found his bed surrounded by thirty or forty Huguenots whom I did not yet know, for I had only been married a few days.
Page 60 - Saone, and afterwards into the middle of Burgundy. Paris trembled a second time at the approach of an army so much the more formidable, because it seemed to be reinforced by the loss of two battles, and to have now gained some advantage over the army of the Catholics which the Marshal de Coss6 commanded.
Page 55 - Due de Guise, had been assassinated by Poltrot at the siege of Orleans, leaving his children in minority. This was in the year 1563. In the second, the Conne*table de Montmorency received a wound at the battle of St. Denis, of which he died at Paris three days after, the eve of Saint Martin, in the year 1567. In the third, in the year 1569, Queen Jeanne rendered herself protectress of the Huguenot party, being for this purpose come to Rochelle with her son, whom she now devoted to the defence of...
Page 128 - ... dead bodies, destined to be cast into the river, whose waters were for several days sullied by tides of human gore. The infuriated assassins, urged on by the cry, that " It was the king's will that the very last of this race of vipers should be crushed and killed," became furious in the slaughter ; in proof of which, one Cruce, a jeweller, displaying his naked and bloody arm, vaunted aloud, that he had cut the throats of more than 400 Huguenots in one day. During this horrid period, every species...
Page 31 - The princess gave her promise ; and testified so much courage, that notwithstanding the pains attendant upon her situation, she sang a song in the language of Beam as soon as she heard the king enter her apartment. It was remarked, that in opposition to the general course of nature, the infant was born without screaming or weeping; and it might naturally be. expected, says Perefixe, that a prince destined to ensure the joy and prosperity of France would not enter the world amidst cries and wailings....
Page 11 - ... England upon France if it should appear that the re-establishment of tranquillity in Europe was prevented by the ambition of its monarch. These arguments, weighty in themselves, and urged by a minister of great authority, would probably have determined the king to decline any connection with the pope. But the duke of Guise, and his brother, the cardinal of Lorraine, who delighted no less in bold and dangerous undertakings than Montmorency shunned them, declared warmly for an alliance with the...
Page 470 - This offensive remark came to Henry's mind at the moment previous to the conflict ; when, approaching the German commander, in presence of the whole army, he expressed himself in the following terms, and in an elevated tone of voice : " M. de Schomberg, I have offended you: this may perhaps prove the last day of my existence ; I am...