. Twenty centuries of Paris . if- ;toS .^ -• STATUE OF HENRY IV ON THE PONT Roland lived in the house on the THE ARCHBISHOPS the bridge, the old Hotel Dieu. PARIS OF HENRY IV 235 was stubborn in spite of more than three yearsand a half of hunger, sickness and death, and thathis enemies outside of the city were strong enoughto inflict upon him a defeat of some moment, heyielded to the urging of his counselors, admittedwith a shrug So fair a city is well worth amass and declared his willingness to turn Cath-olic. After suitably prolonged disputations withtheolog
. Twenty centuries of Paris . if- ;toS .^ -• STATUE OF HENRY IV ON THE PONT Roland lived in the house on the THE ARCHBISHOPS the bridge, the old Hotel Dieu. PARIS OF HENRY IV 235 was stubborn in spite of more than three yearsand a half of hunger, sickness and death, and thathis enemies outside of the city were strong enoughto inflict upon him a defeat of some moment, heyielded to the urging of his counselors, admittedwith a shrug So fair a city is well worth amass and declared his willingness to turn Cath-olic. After suitably prolonged disputations withtheologians he declared himself convinced of theerror of his belief, and on a Sunday in July, 1593,he appeared at Saint Denis where an imposingbody of prelates was arrayed before the greatdoor, and professed his new faith. Then he wasallowed to enter the building and to repeat hisprofession before the altar. Paris was not sorry to have an excuse for sub-mitting and in the following March whenHenrys troops entered the city in the graynessof dawn one day toward the end of the monththere was no opposition. On his way to NotreDame to
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