. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . ocking epitaph set upon it :— Lan mil cinq soixante neuf,Entre Jarnac et Chateau neuf;Fut porte mort sur une anesse,Cil qui voulait oter la messe. The defeated Protestants were, however, soon roused toenthusiasm by the arrival of Jeanne of Navarre at theircamp, leading her son Henry by one hand and the eldestson of Conde by the other. Here, cried the widowedqueen, are two orphans I confide to you ; two leaders thatGod has given you. One of these orphans was to becomeHenry IV. of France. The treaty of St. Germ
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . ocking epitaph set upon it :— Lan mil cinq soixante neuf,Entre Jarnac et Chateau neuf;Fut porte mort sur une anesse,Cil qui voulait oter la messe. The defeated Protestants were, however, soon roused toenthusiasm by the arrival of Jeanne of Navarre at theircamp, leading her son Henry by one hand and the eldestson of Conde by the other. Here, cried the widowedqueen, are two orphans I confide to you ; two leaders thatGod has given you. One of these orphans was to becomeHenry IV. of France. The treaty of St. Germain, which has so often beencharged on Catherine as an act of perfidy, was rather animperative necessity, if respite were to be had from themisery into which the land had fallen. Its conditions werehonourably carried out, and Catholic excesses were impar-tially and severely repressed. Charles IX., who wasnow twenty years of age, began to assert his inde-pendence of the queen-mother and of the Guises, and Henry of Guise had succeeded to the dukedom after his HUGUENOT AND CATHOLIC 167 his tirst movement was in the direction of young king offered the hand of his sister, PrincessMarguerite, to Henry of Navarre, and received Colignyand Jeanne of Navarre with much honour at court. Pressurewas brought to bear upon him, but, pope or no pope, theking said he was determined to conclude the Catholic party, and especially Paris, were capital, with the provost, the Parlement, the univer-sity, the prelates, the religious orders, had always beenhostile to the Huguenots. The people could with difficultybe restrained at times from assuming the office of execu-tioners as Protestants were led to the stake. Anyone who did not uncover as he passed the image ofthe Virgin at the street corners, or who omitted tobend the knee as the Host was carried by, was attackedas a Lutheran, When the heralds published the peacewith the Huguenots a
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