. The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . t call her a good woman; but we must atleast recognize the tigerish love with which she clung to and battled for thisworthless brood of hers. Her eldest son, Francis II. (1559-1560), a youth of sixteen, weak both inmind and body, was king only eighteen months. That was time enough tokindle into inextinguishable flame the religious wars. The young King wa
. The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . t call her a good woman; but we must atleast recognize the tigerish love with which she clung to and battled for thisworthless brood of hers. Her eldest son, Francis II. (1559-1560), a youth of sixteen, weak both inmind and body, was king only eighteen months. That was time enough tokindle into inextinguishable flame the religious wars. The young King wasalready married to the beautiful and ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scotland. Marywas a niece of that Francis, Duke of Guise, whom we have seen grown so greatand so popular through his victories in Henrys reign. The Guises, with thefair Marys help, now became all powerful. They arranged with the Kings mother to continue Henrys plans for crush-ing heresy. One of the chief judges of the kingdom, who had bravely resistedthe proposed introduction of the Inquisition, was executed. This only servedto unite the Huguenots, and put them upon their guard. They were far morenumerous than their foes suspected. At this time almost all of the nobility of. France—Growth of the Huguenots 865 France, except the little knot of courtiers closest to the throne, leaned towardthe new faith. Among the common people it had not spread so rapidly. Ofthe burghers, perhaps one in eight; of the peasants, an even smaller proportionwere Protestants. The strength of the new religion lay thus among the nobles, who hadadopted it perhaps as much through policy as from conviction; and unfortu-nately, in their hands it became a political movement. The great body of theFrenchmen upon both sides were probably sincere in their convictions, manyof them were heroically so; but several of the leaders seem to have beenchiefly moved by ideas of personal profit or revenge, and are open to the awfulcharge of inciting religious
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