The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . CHARLES IX. ADMIRAL COLIGNI When Charles was fourteen he was proclaimed king,and his mother Catherine pretended to give up her au-thority. She even started for Italy, where she was her son was lost without her. He could not evenwrite a letter unless she was at his elbow. He sent forher to come back. She came, and ruled France with ahigher and a more iron hand than ever. The cunningwoman now believed that the Catholics were going to win,and made up her mind to put out of th
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . CHARLES IX. ADMIRAL COLIGNI When Charles was fourteen he was proclaimed king,and his mother Catherine pretended to give up her au-thority. She even started for Italy, where she was her son was lost without her. He could not evenwrite a letter unless she was at his elbow. He sent forher to come back. She came, and ruled France with ahigher and a more iron hand than ever. The cunningwoman now believed that the Catholics were going to win,and made up her mind to put out of the way the Hugue-not leader—the white-headed and gallant Admiral Coiigni—not that she had any fault to find with him, nor that sheobjected to Protestantism, but because she thought that hestood in her way, and that if he were dead the Huguenotswould lose heart and cease from troubling. She conspired with the Duke of Guise, the son of theman who was shot at Orleans, and the two hired an assas-
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