. Twenty centuries of Paris . outand banish your good citizens and counselors:that they hang and massacre your principal mag-istrates ; you see it and endure it but you approveit and praise it and you would not dare or knowhow to do otherwise. You have given little sup-port to your King, good-tempered, easy, friendly,who behaved like a fellow-citizen of your townwhich he had enriched and embellished with hand-some buildings, fortified with strong and haughtyramparts, honored with privileges and favorableexemptions. What say I? Given little support?Far worse: you have driven him from his city,h
. Twenty centuries of Paris . outand banish your good citizens and counselors:that they hang and massacre your principal mag-istrates ; you see it and endure it but you approveit and praise it and you would not dare or knowhow to do otherwise. You have given little sup-port to your King, good-tempered, easy, friendly,who behaved like a fellow-citizen of your townwhich he had enriched and embellished with hand-some buildings, fortified with strong and haughtyramparts, honored with privileges and favorableexemptions. What say I? Given little support?Far worse: you have driven him from his city,his house, his very bed! Driven him? you havepursued him. Pursued him? You assassinatedhim, canonized the assassin and made joyful overhis death. And now you see how much this deathprofited you. Henry of Navarre became king of Paris aswell as of the rest of France though it requireda considerable concession to achieve that it was not the first time that he had made amental somersault, so when he found that Paris.
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