A Popular History of France from the Earliest Time
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Produced by David Widger
HISTORY OF FRANCE
BY M. GUIZOT
VOLUME IV.
CONTENTS:
XXVIII. FRANCIS I. AND CHARLES V. 9
XXIX. FRANCIS I. AND THE RENAISSANCE. 137
XXX. FRANCIS I. AND THE REFORMATION. 179
XXXI. HENRY II. (1547-1559.) 230
XXXII. FRANCIS II. JULY 10, 1559--DECEMBER 5, 1560 269
XXXIII. CHARLES IX. AND THE RELIGIOUS WARS. (1560-1574.) 296
XXXIV. HENRY III. AND THE RELIGIOUS WARS. (1574-1589.) 388
LIST OF STEEL ENGRAVINGS:
THE CASTLE OF CHAIIIBORD. FRONTISPIECE.
FRANCIS I 137
GALLERY HENRY II 230
DIANA DE POITIERS 243
MARY STUART 270
HENRY OF LORRAINE (DUKE OF GUISE) 332
LIST OF WOOD-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS:
Cardinal Ximenes 14
All Night a-horseback 19
Bayard Knighting Francis I 19
Leo X. 21
Anthony Duprat 24
Charles V. 39
Francis I. surprises Henry VIII 44
The Field of the Cloth of Gold 45
The Constable de Bourbon 53
The Death of Bayard 76
Capture of Francis I. 91
Louise of Savoy and Marguerite de Valois 102
Francis I. 115
The Duke of Orleans and Charles V 128
Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Guise 130
St. Thomas Aquinas and Abelard 140
Clement Marot 162
Francis I. waits for Robert Estienne 168
Rabelais 171
The First Protestants 178
William Farel 181
The Castle of Pau 183
Burning of Reformers at Meaux 188
Erasmus 194
Berquin released by John de la Barre 198
Heretic Iconoclasts 201
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Popular History of France from the Earliest Time
- 2: Her absolute monarchy Henry IV
- 3: It has just been shown in what terms Louise of Savoy
- 4: And to this Marguerite herself bore witness when she said
- 5: With the secret support of the Emperor Maximilian
- 6: Where Sir Prosper Colonna was at table and was dining
- 7: The said lanzknechts were mighty frightened
- 8: The Venetian ambassador at Rome
- 9: Regained possession of all Milaness
- 10: And refused to register the ordinance
- 11: Chancellor Duprat was the delegate
- 12: And had abrogated the Pragmatic
- 13: The chancellor explained the points of the Concordat
- 14: Answered La Tremoille I may not reveal it
- 15: And the States General of 1484
- 16: The Archbishops of Troves and of Cologne
- 17: A more important personage than Sickingen
- 18: Sickingen and his troops were a clog upon deliberation
- 19: Had obtained the advocacy of Cardinal Wolsey
- 20: For their meeting in the valley of Ardres
- 21: He mounted his horse and went back to Ardres
- 22: And without replying to Trivulzio
- 23: Sumptuousness and halls of Lucullus
- 24: Semblancay stuck to what he had said
- 25: Than the execution of Semblancay
- 26: He contributed greatly to the victory of Melegnano
- 27: Moulins was an almost kingly residence
- 28: And when the king summoned him to the army of Picardy
- 29: And Lizet premier president of Parliament
- 30: Beaurain was conducted thither
- 31: The lanzknechts crossed the Rhine on the 26th of August
- 32: Six thousand foot and twelve thousand lanzknechts
- 33: Warthy speedily came and rejoined him
- 34: On bidding good by to the Bishop of Autun
- 35: Confided this difficult charge to Bonnivet
- 36: But he had already arrived at Abbiate Grasso
- 37: The Marquis of Pescara came passing by
- 38: By his own servitors was he carried into Dauphiny
- 39: Bourbon entered Provence on the 7th of July
- 40: Bourbon asked Pescara for his Spaniards
- 41: And of once more going forth to the conquest of Milaness
- 42: That defeated and disorganized army
- 43: Antony de Leyva had the bridge forthwith broken down
- 44: Bourbon vigorously supported the opinion of Pescara
- 45: Pescara urged the Duke of Bourbon and Lannoy
- 46: All the king's regard was for the Marquis of Pescara
- 47: Lannoy transported him straight to Spain
- 48: As derived from Mary of Burgundy
- 49: Wolsey himself was cooled towards Charles V
- 50: And the regent hinted that her daughter Marguerite
- 51: But neither good and pertinent reasons
- 52: The giving up of Burgundy was for Francis I
- 53: Marguerite fully perceived his embarrassment
- 54: After which Francis was escorted by Lannoy to Fontarabia
- 55: The king sent back the metal to Madame de Chateaubriant
- 56: At Pavia and the captivity of Francis I
- 57: Bourbon found not only that town
- 58: Aiming his arquebuse at the midst of a group of besiegers
- 59: Consulted the grandees of his kingdom
- 60: Burgundy set off again for Madrid
- 61: The peace of Cambrai was called the ladies' peace
- 62: It is certain that Chancellor Duprat
- 63: One of Algiers and the other of Tunis
- 64: Montmorency signed a similar one for Piedmont
- 65: For an interview at Aigues Mortes
- 66: Francis rejected the offer of the Ghentese
- 67: According to some historians there had been at Chantilly
- 68: The former under the orders of the Marquis del Guasto
- 69: Nor so hare brained as you consider me
- 70: The battle was delivered at Ceresole on the 14th of April
- 71: He fell back to Crespy in Laonness
- 72: Born at Beauvais between 1184 and 1194
- 73: Speculum historiale Mirror of Historical Science
- 74: Said Adam of the Premontre order le premontre
- 75: The Renaissance of Greek and Roman antiquity came in
- 76: Given by Geoffrey de Villehardouin
- 77: More lively and more familiar in style than Villehardouin
- 78: Philip de Commynes is quite another affair
- 79: In French poesy previous to the Renaissance
- 80: Christian and Paynim are at grips
- 81: The battle is too strong I'll blow Mine Olifant
- 82: Oliver dies Roland and Archbishop Turpin continue the fight
- 83: Since erst the great Apostles' time
- 84: Throughout the world 'That's Clement
- 85: Illustration Clement Marot 162 Clemont Marot
- 86: Clement Marot rendered to the French language
- 87: Marot translated thirty of them
- 88: Estienne Pasquier wrote to Ronsard
- 89: Was their zealous and lavish patron
- 90: Rabelais reappears at Montpellier
- 91: The Faits et Dicts heroiques de Pantagruel
- 92: Ponocrates was very careful not to send him to any college
- 93: Had a special aversion for Montaigu College
- 94: At the commencement of the sixteenth century
- 95: Turning to Farel and taking his hand
- 96: Was all her life at Pau and at Nerac
- 97: Illustration William Farel 181 The Sorbonne
- 98: Provincial councils were held at Meaux
- 99: As long as they are a prey to the blazing fagots
- 100: Berquin was summoned and interrogated
- 101: Translated and spread abroad in France by Berquin
- 102: Berquin presented several demands for delay
- 103: And he replied to Beda by denouncing him
- 104: And removed from it Louis de Berquin
- 105: She must have thought Berquin safe
- 106: He himself carried a lighted waxen taper
- 107: Appeared to take Berquin by surprise
- 108: Berquin persisted in his resolution
- 109: After having twice saved Berquin from a heretic's doom
- 110: He himself wrote to Melancthon
- 111: Wrote the Chancellor de Granvelle
- 112: Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris
- 113: For the same Bourgeois de Paris reports
- 114: The episcopal prisons were filled with Vaudians
- 115: A personal enemy of the Vaudians of Cabrieres
- 116: Resigned his cure at Pont l'Eveque
- 117: That Calvin dedicates his work
- 118: Calvin in 1536 arrived at Geneva
- 119: Under the name of Presbyterian regimen
- 120: And it shows through an opening in the doublet
- 121: And yet Marguerite was loath to leave life
- 122: He repaired to Rochelle with a numerous body of lanzknechts
- 123: Almost complete abolition of the Babel in Guienne
- 124: Of the treatise by De la Boetie
- 125: Francis d'Andelot born at Chatillon
- 126: Says Vieilleville in his Memoires
- 127: And on the 18th he entered Metz
- 128: The episcopal residence of Strasbourg
- 129: And strengthen Metz in every way
- 130: Whilst Metz was still holding out
- 131: He flattered himself that he had found it in Therouanne
- 132: And the Bishop of Arras drew near to render him that service
- 133: War broke out in Picardy and Flanders
- 134: He met Captain Alonzo de Cazieres
- 135: After that Saint Quentin had surrendered
- 136: Guise took the command of the army
- 137: Who robbed me of my town of Calais
- 138: Montluc supported him valiantly
- 139: The treaty of Cateau Cambresis
- 140: La Reformation en France pendant sa premiere periode
- 141: On the public walk in the Pre aux Clercs
- 142: And bade the Count de Montgomery
- 143: Writes the Venetian ambassador
- 144: Memoires de Michael de Castelnau
- 145: Naturally ascribed to some friend of Dubourg
- 146: Admiral de Coligny and his brother
- 147: The malcontents at once made up to the Reformers
- 148: Coligny formally opposed this plan
- 149: Well known to Duke Francis of Guise
- 150: They removed the king to the castle of Amboise
- 151: And he remained at Amboise itself
- 152: Chancellor de l'Hospital and Coligny
- 153: The deputies of Languedoc escaped this ambuscade
- 154: But Montpezat had ill understood his instructions
- 155: The king questioned Conde sharply
- 156: And that if the King of Navarre defended himself stubbornly
- 157: Illustration Coligny at the Death bed of Francis II
- 158: Memoires de Michel de Castelnau
- 159: Rid herself of the King of Navarre
- 160: Conde determined to set out for La Fere
- 161: Marshal Francis de Montmorency
- 162: Illustration Massacre of Protestants 305 In 1562
- 163: The little town of Gaillac was almost entirely Catholic
- 164: Both Adrets and Montluc persisted in it
- 165: Whither Coligny went promptly to join him
- 166: As the Huguenots would not listen to reason
- 167: And the Prince of Conde Admiral de Coligny
- 168: Whereupon he discoursed about the battle of Dreux
- 169: Bullets cast to slay the Guisard
- 170: The decree sentenced Poltrot to the punishment of regicides
- 171: To confine the religion to one town in every bailiwick
- 172: And the Montmorencies ended by embracing
- 173: Even Conde could not delude himself any longer
- 174: The peace of Longjumeau was a lie
- 175: Who went and joined him at Noyers
- 176: The estate of Vignay seems to me a little kingdom
- 177: With Admiral de Coligny for second
- 178: Where the Duke of Anjou lodged on the evening of the battle
- 179: When in 1569 he thus testified
- 180: Between the end of 1569 and the middle of 1570
- 181: On the 7th of July he arrived at Charite sur Loire
- 182: In the concluding weeks of 1570
- 183: Anybody who can make me marry the Princess of Portien
- 184: Sent Marshal de Cosse to La Rochelle
- 185: Jeanne was a strict and a judicious person
- 186: When he was speaking likewise to Teligny
- 187: Previously to the massacre called the St
- 188: This is what passed at Bayonne in 1565
- 189: And Coligny was often present at court
- 190: Whereupon Tavannes said to the king
- 191: Said Coligny to the queen mother
- 192: Tavannes himself terms these expressions an artful harangue
- 193: Two persons felt a passionate hatred towards Coligny
- 194: Teligny speedily joined his father in law
- 195: Says the Duke of Anjou himself
- 196: And Chancellor de Birague to come
- 197: Coligny understood what was going to happen
- 198: The actual murderers of Coligny
- 199: The first opposition of the provost of tradesmen
- 200: Henry of Navarre and Henry de Conde
- 201: Brantome speaks of four thousand bodies that Charles IX
- 202: And the municipal body of Nantes
- 203: Renewed in the terms of the edicts of pacification
- 204: Whose sister La Noue had married
- 205: La Noue got more fiercely angry
- 206: Amongst others that of Coligny
- 207: Said the Venetian ambassador Sigismund Cavalli
- 208: Let your Majesty cease weeping
- 209: Pibrac rejoined King Henry at Vienna
- 210: Agents of the king's government or malcontents
- 211: Languedoc owed to Marshal de Damville
- 212: Revolt penetrated to the royal household
- 213: Testifying little sympathy with the Duke of Anjou
- 214: Bartholomew should be short lived also
- 215: A burgess named La Roche Blond
- 216: Thence came his name of Henry the Scarred le Balafre
- 217: This grand and salutary discovery
- 218: And in 1584 it became still more difficult to practise
- 219: The Cardinals of Bourbon and Guise
- 220: Catherine gave Turenne to understand that
- 221: She reproached him with not doing as he pleased in Rochelle
- 222: His scouts came and told him that the Germans were at Vimory
- 223: Met the Duke of Joyeuse already wounded
- 224: A mind and character incomprehensible indeed
- 225: The Parliament and the Sorbonne
- 226: The Leaguers had been expecting him for several days
- 227: De Guise has just arrived at Paris
- 228: Remaining stationary at the Louvre
- 229: Had taken horse at the Tuileries
- 230: And Trahy made bishop in his stead
- 231: Guise himself was timid before the Leaguers
- 232: Guise grew pale at these words
- 233: Touching the Duke of Elbeuf upon the shoulder
- 234: Substitutes for the feudal regimen
- 235: Pericard passed his bonbon box to him
- 236: You have had the Duke of Guise killed
- 237: Became the instrument of the Leaguers
- 238: When Rosny got back to Chatellerault
- 239: And with Philip du Plessis Mornay
- 240: The King of Navarre wrote to Du Plessis Mornay
- 241: We cannot believe that Sixtus V
- 242: And Rosny to his lodging at the foot of the castle