France . ls. He threatened war, and the crywas raised that Europe was about to be deluged in bloodfor another Helen. War which could be assigned to such a cause, or for which the pretext was to put the Protestant claimants into the heritage of Ziilich-Cleves, could not be popular with the country, much less with the CathoUc extremists. At last one of the fanatics, excited by the teaching of the Jesuits, struck home. Francois Ravaillac stabbed Henri to death as he was driving in the streets of Paris. It was the last of a long series of attempts upon his life. The utter despair and grief with wh
France . ls. He threatened war, and the crywas raised that Europe was about to be deluged in bloodfor another Helen. War which could be assigned to such a cause, or for which the pretext was to put the Protestant claimants into the heritage of Ziilich-Cleves, could not be popular with the country, much less with the CathoUc extremists. At last one of the fanatics, excited by the teaching of the Jesuits, struck home. Francois Ravaillac stabbed Henri to death as he was driving in the streets of Paris. It was the last of a long series of attempts upon his life. The utter despair and grief with which his people received the news of his death was at once testimony to the greatness of the achievements of this most national of Kings in the * Henri had allowed them to return to France in 1603. Fromthat moment, with unceasing cleverness and zeal, they forwardedthe ultramontane propaganda, striving against the spirit ofGallicanism to establish the doctrine of pontifical supremacy,spiritual and Aicg; Rischgitz. CAKDINAL, DUG DE RICHELIEU, Chapter XVIII. Died 1642. From the picture hy Philippe de Champaigne in the Louvre, ASSASSINATION OF HENRI TV. 253 cause of France, and no exaggerated foreboding of theirretrievable disaster this calamity was to entail (May 14,1610). In a moment men remembered the horrors of theLeague, and contrasted the peace and good order of 1610with the bloodshed and ruin of 1589. And they saw howbright the sun had been when they looked backward intothe darkness and forward into gloom. France, drivenfrom her course hke a rudderless ship, disappeared fromthe sea of foreign poUtics for half a generation. Europeplunged into the Thirty Years War. XVIII THE KULE OF EICHELIEU(Loots XIII., 1610^1643) Louis XIII. was but nine years old. Preparing toinvade Navarre, Henri had appointed the Queen-mother to act as Regent in his absence. She was able,therefore, upon his death to assume that position withlittle difficulty. Once more the House of Florent
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