. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. the sixteenth century, andProtestants and Catholics became its occupantsin turn. Virtually La Charite-sur-Loire be-came a Protestant stronghold in spite of itsCatholic foundation. In 1577 it bade defiance to the royal arins ofthe Due dAlengon, as is recounted by the fol-lowing lines: «0u allez-vous, h^las I furieux in sensesCherchabt de Charity la proie et la ruine,Qui sans Iombre de Foj abbatre la pensezi Le canon ne peut rien centre la Charity,Plus tot vous d^truira la paste et la famine,Car jamais sans Foy naurez la Charity. In s
. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. the sixteenth century, andProtestants and Catholics became its occupantsin turn. Virtually La Charite-sur-Loire be-came a Protestant stronghold in spite of itsCatholic foundation. In 1577 it bade defiance to the royal arins ofthe Due dAlengon, as is recounted by the fol-lowing lines: «0u allez-vous, h^las I furieux in sensesCherchabt de Charity la proie et la ruine,Qui sans Iombre de Foj abbatre la pensezi Le canon ne peut rien centre la Charity,Plus tot vous d^truira la paste et la famine,Car jamais sans Foy naurez la Charity. In spite of this defiance it capitulated, and,on the 15th of May, at the chateau of Ples-sis-les-Tours on the Loire, Henri III. cele-brated the victory of his brother by a fete uUra-galante, where, in place of the usualpages, there were employed des dames ves-tues en habits dhommes. . Surely a fan-tastic and immodest manner of celebrating avictory against religious opponents; but, likemany of the customs of the time, the fete wassimply a fanatical ^^^CCi
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