A Popular History of France from the Earliest Time
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Produced by David Widger
HISTORY OF FRANCE
BY M. GUIZOT
VOLUME V.
LIST OF STEEL ENGRAVINGS:
CASTLE OF PAU FRONTISPIECE.
GABRIELLE D'ESTREES 130
MARIE DE MEDICI. 147
RICHELIEU. 180
LOUIS XIV. 344
TURENNE. 444
LIST OF WOOD-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS.
Henry IV. 11
Henry IV. at Ivry 26
"Do not lose Sight of my White Plume." 30
Rosny Castle 30
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma 32
Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne 35
Sully 37
Lemaitre, Mayenne, and the Archbishop of Lyons 53
Henry IV.'s Abjuration 56
The Castle of Monceaux 91
The Castle of St. Germain in the Reign of Henry IV. 107
The Castle of Fontainbleau 124
Henry IV. and his Ministers 138
The Arsenal in the Reign of Henry IV. 143
The Louvre 145
Concini, Leonora Galigai, and Mary de' Medici 149
Louis XIII. and Albert de Luynes 154
Murder of Marshal d'Ancre 155
Double Duel 188
"Tapping with his Finger-tips on the Window-pane." 191
Henry, Duke of Montmorency, at Castelnaudary 199
The King and the Cardinal 204
Cinq-Mars and De Thou going to Execution 215
The Parliament of Paris reprimanded 217
The Barefoots 221
The Abbot of St. Cyran 234
Demolishing the Fortifications 244
The Harbor of La Rochelle 248
The King and Richelieu at La Rochelle 250
John Guiton's Oath 254
The Defile of Suza Pass 278
Richelieu and Father Joseph 280
Gustavus Adolphus 282
Death of Gustavus and his Page 290
The Palais-Cardinal 305
The Tomb of Richelieu 308
Descartes at Amsterdam 316
The King's Press 323
Peter Corneille 334
The Representation of "the Cid." 335
Corneille at the Hotel Rambouillet 342
The Great Conde 348
Arrest of Broussel 352
Cardinal de Retz 352
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Popular History of France from the Earliest Time
- 2: Dismissing Fouquet 407Louvois 411William III
- 3: Sancy reported this conversation to the king
- 4: And the Duke of La Tremoille amongst the Protestants
- 5: And that was Cardinal Charles de Bourbon
- 6: And had the cardinal removed to Fontenay le Comte in Poitou
- 7: That the king was approaching Dieppe
- 8: From Arques to Dieppe and to the Faubourg du Pollet
- 9: Tried to stop it after his success at Arques
- 10: The Venetian senate accredited to the court of Henry IV
- 11: Gaetani was a long while on the road
- 12: He recommenced the campaign by the siege of Dreux
- 13: At Ivry 26 LETTER OF KING HENRY IV
- 14: And when he was removed to Rosny Castle
- 15: To join Mayenne at Meaux and threaten Henry IV
- 16: In 1591 these public sentiments
- 17: The Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia
- 18: And to hear your opinions thereon
- 19: One of the most fiery prelates of the League
- 20: It contained the fanatical Leaguers
- 21: Rosny I can assure you honestly
- 22: Rosny threw himself upon his knees
- 23: The Edict of Nantes in his mind
- 24: Had said to one of the most determined Leaguers
- 25: The conference assembled at Suresnes
- 26: President Lemaitre interrupted him
- 27: The castle of Dreux was obliged to capitulate
- 28: 's Abjuration 56 On Sunday the 25th of July
- 29: He opposed the three months' truce concluded by Mayenne
- 30: Ornano marched in over the barricades
- 31: Had already given this office to Biron
- 32: As regards the capitulation of Villars to Henry IV
- 33: 'Twas Villeroi who did the thing
- 34: And confirmation in his kingship
- 35: Said the Duchess of Montpensier
- 36: Brissac went to call upon the legate Gaetani
- 37: Where an outpost of lanzknechts tried to stop them
- 38: The Duchesses of Nemours and of Montpensier
- 39: Discovered on the ground close to Chastel
- 40: Father Guignard was obliged to retract
- 41: To the estates of Artois and Hainault
- 42: He officially declared against Philip II
- 43: A large burgh a few leagues from Dijon
- 44: Accompanied by the Duke of Mayenne
- 45: Whose ability and devotion Henry IV
- 46: That between the Duke of Mayenne and Henry IV
- 47: He had gone to rest a while at Monceaux
- 48: Mayenne was as good as his word
- 49: And he retook Amiens after a six months' struggle
- 50: When Calais was recovered from the Spaniards
- 51: Sancy found him even colder than his queen
- 52: By bringing Rosny into the council of finance
- 53: For we do make plaint of all the French
- 54: Even before the edict of Nantes
- 55: A special impost was laid on the Calvinists
- 56: Notably the edict of Poitiers issued by Henry III
- 57: Du Plessis Mornay and his wife
- 58: The edict chamber was composed of two presidents
- 59: The peace of Vervins and the edict of Narrtes were
- 60: After having indicated the King of Scotland
- 61: And he often talked about them to Sully
- 62: Rosny was content at first to serve him as a volunteer
- 63: Naturally a Leaguer and a moderate Leaguer
- 64: There was no more heard of Saint Phal
- 65: Said he to the Bishop of Evreux
- 66: Of the life and character of Mornay
- 67: And took him to see the Bastille
- 68: Amongst his points of superiority to the Duke of Mayenne
- 69: And holding Gabrielle with one hand and Rosny with the other
- 70: Sully found that it was a promise of marriage given to Mdlle
- 71: Mary de' Medici was beautiful in 1592
- 72: Regarded Biron with tender affection
- 73: Biron preserved a frigid silence
- 74: Her father had promised her to Francis de Bassompierre
- 75: Bassompierre reflected that it was
- 76: He had an idea of going to the Arsenal to see Sully
- 77: De Sully with some forty horse
- 78: 1598 between France and Spain
- 79: And Mary de' Medici 149 But Mary de' Medici had
- 80: The Marquis of La Force as well as the Duke of Lesdiguieres
- 81: The Catholic champion whom Henry IV
- 82: Leonora Galigai died leaving one child
- 83: The noblesse Henry de Bauffremont
- 84: And hastened to take possession of his see of Lucon
- 85: On arriving at Blois with the queen mother
- 86: Friends at court warned Luynes of this language
- 87: The Duke of Epernon and their agents
- 88: The Duke of Epernon supported him
- 89: Mornay used the same language to the Protestants
- 90: At the demand of the Estates of Bearn
- 91: Jealous of the Bishop of Lucon and dreading his influence
- 92: During an assembly held at La Rochelle
- 93: The premier consul of Montauban
- 94: Who was in residence at Castres
- 95: And he ordered Luynes to go and take
- 96: Passed a just but severe judgment upon Albert de Luynes
- 97: De la Vieuville fell irretrievably
- 98: Eighteen months had barely rolled away when Colonel Ornano
- 99: Chalais was arrested in his bed on the 8th of July
- 100: De Bouteville and his comrade had taken post for Lorraine
- 101: But Richelieu suspected something wrong
- 102: To show Marillac the postcript
- 103: Marshal Marillac was taken to the castle of St
- 104: Languedoc was displeased with Richelieu
- 105: But the Reformed ministers of Nimes
- 106: At three leagues' distance from Castelnaudary
- 107: To quicken her departure from Beziers
- 108: Early and the Duke of Montmorency was sleeping peacefully
- 109: Said Cardinal Zapata to Bautru and Barrault
- 110: And got a letter delivered to Laporte
- 111: 's growing affection for young Cinq Mars
- 112: Fontrailles went to call upon him
- 113: The grand equerry coming from Montpellier
- 114: The votes were unanimous against the grand equerry
- 115: Chalais and Montmorency had used the same language
- 116: Five counsellors were interdicted
- 117: Fearing a dearth of corn in Dauphiny
- 118: In the name of General Nu pieds Barefoot
- 119: Not so heavy a drinker as Rantzau
- 120: And those of Dauphiny were completely lost
- 121: The day after the conspiracy of Chalais
- 122: The performance appertained to Richelieu
- 123: Cardinal Berulle founded the con gregation of the Oratory
- 124: Cyran was not content with them
- 125: Cyran and his saintly requirements
- 126: Richelieu preserved appearances no longer
- 127: Towed them off in triumph to La Rochelle a fatal success
- 128: Still at grips with Spain in the Valteline
- 129: To the extermination of the Huguenot party
- 130: Said Cardinal Richelieu to the king
- 131: They wrote to the Duke of Rohan
- 132: The proof of this was that a burgess of La Rochelle
- 133: Marshal Schomberg took the road to Marennes
- 134: All the Rochellese shall go out together
- 135: At the head of the burgesses of La Rochelle
- 136: Said the envoy to the Rochellese
- 137: But Guiton had the revolters hanged
- 138: He demanded pardon for the Rochellese
- 139: Guiton came to meet him with six archers
- 140: Madame de Rohan and her daughter
- 141: Who invited a new population to inhabit Privas
- 142: Repaired to Anduze for the defence of the mountains
- 143: Pending the advent with Louis XIV
- 144: To see the Infanta Mary Anne of Spain
- 145: Answered Mary de' Medici quickly
- 146: Carried on by Cardinal Richelieu
- 147: Attacked the feeble garrison of the Valteline
- 148: To march before long on Pignerol
- 149: And speedily found himself in front of Casale
- 150: By this time Gustavus Adolphus was in Pomerania
- 151: On hearing that Gustavus Adolphus had disembarked
- 152: Intrusted his soldiers to Gustavus Adolphus
- 153: Forcing Gustavus Adolphus back
- 154: Three Austrian cuirassiers surrounded him
- 155: Concluded in 1629 through the intervention of Richelieu
- 156: He wrote to Feuquieres to accept the king's secret offers
- 157: Oxenstiern soon departed for Holland
- 158: The Elector of Saxony had treated with the emperor
- 159: Except La Capelle and Le Catelet
- 160: And that he who had taken La Rochelle in spite of Ocean
- 161: The Duke of Savoy had died in 1637
- 162: Richelieu died as he had lived
- 163: Called to his council Cardinal Mazarin
- 164: The arms of Cardinal Richelieu
- 165: Germain looking towards the Abbey of St
- 166: Scarcely had the translation of Plutarch by Amyot appeared
- 167: Montaigne gave up the Parliament
- 168: Descartes was the first master of it and its great exponent
- 169: In this great city of Amsterdam
- 170: Descartes caught inflammation of the lungs
- 171: Malherbe became the poet of the court
- 172: It was at the Hotel Rambouillet
- 173: And to discuss literary questions
- 174: The cardinal duke of Richelieu
- 175: The French Academy was founded
- 176: Francion and Ibere contend together for the favors of Europe
- 177: What were Ibere without thy provinces and thee
- 178: Corneille did not appeal from this judgment
- 179: Illustration Peter Corneille 334 Peter Corneille
- 180: Corneille had abandoned Richelieu's pieces
- 181: Corneille did not ask for this judgment
- 182: Who had sent him his Observations sur le Cid
- 183: Condemned the attempt of Polyeucte to overthrow idols
- 184: And Secretary of State Chavigny
- 185: Since the death of Cardinal Richelieu
- 186: On hearing of the victory of Rocroi
- 187: Without any liking for Mazarin
- 188: With the co operation of Viscount Turenne
- 189: You would have me set Broussel at liberty
- 190: And if you do not this very day set Broussel at liberty
- 191: The release of Broussel was extorted from her
- 192: Broussel had taken his seat in the Parliament again
- 193: Memoires de Madame de Motteville
- 194: Reconciled with the Duchess of Longueville
- 195: Conde leaned towards Comminges
- 196: Cardinal Mazarin set out for St
- 197: The coadjutor quite expected the struggle
- 198: Conde was resolved upon civil war
- 199: Meanwhile Conde had arrived at Bordeaux a part of Guienne
- 200: At that very moment arrived Mdlle
- 201: Antoine now Place do la Bastille
- 202: ' Madame de Nemours did not like this
- 203: And poltroonery were delivering France over to the foreigner
- 204: Tavannes and Vallon ought to wear bridles
- 205: The Duke of Orleans still wavered
- 206: I fortified myself against that notion
- 207: Mazarin demanded his resignation
- 208: Cromwell sent two fresh regiments for the siege of Dunkerque
- 209: The garrison of Dunkerque was exhausted
- 210: When Christina arrived at Paris
- 211: And the Queen of Sweden encouraged her
- 212: I bring your Majesty both peace and the Infanta
- 213: De Montpensier made up her mind to be present
- 214: Memoires de Madame de Motteville
- 215: Illustration Death of Mazarin
- 216: The youthful ardor of King Louis XIV
- 217: Illustration Fouquet 404 Fouquet
- 218: Colbert took the trouble one day to go and call upon old M
- 219: It was all that the friends of Fouquet could hope for
- 220: De Lionne was an able diplomatist
- 221: John van Witt was anxious to act
- 222: Tromp has courage enough to fight
- 223: The queen's quarters were at Courtrai
- 224: Leaned personally towards an alliance with France
- 225: Having run the same risk at the siege of Lille
- 226: De Lionne from one of his correspondents
- 227: A subsidy of three million livres of Tours every year
- 228: Van Witt was filled with disquietude
- 229: John van Witt was negotiating in every direction
- 230: Marshal Crequi said to the king
- 231: Between the Wahal and the Yssel
- 232: The native place of the Van Witts
- 233: The irruption of the enemy as far as the banks of the Yssel
- 234: The murderers vented their fury on John van Witt
- 235: For twenty years John van Witt had
- 236: Maestricht held out three weeks
- 237: That Turenne was at last enabled to leave Elsass reconquered
- 238: Hilaire found him at the head of his infantry
- 239: After a check received by Marshal Crequi
- 240: Sent his ultimatum to Nimeguen
- 241: Said the Spanish plenipotentiary to the nuncio
- 242: Confronting Marshal Luxembourg
- 243: Louvois had kept up communications inside the place
- 244: The diet of Ratisbonne intervened
- 245: And the Count of Avaux as adviser
- 246: Wrote Marshal Luxembourg to Louvois
- 247: I fancy myself at Heidelberg or Manheim
- 248: To the grand pensionary Heinsius
- 249: Tourville assembled his council of war
- 250: Next year at Neerwinden 29th of July
- 251: Victor Amadeo would recover Savoy
- 252: Said the French plenipotentiaries haughtily
- 253: Already comptroller of finance
- 254: And the Low Countries were to belong to Archduke Charles
- 255: The Duke of Anjou had repaired thither by the back way
- 256: Wrote Heinsius to the King of Englaiid
- 257: ' 'As for your aggrandizement
- 258: Without giving the Prince of Wales
- 259: De Torcy Sir The king my master
- 260: Holland had promised ninety thousand men
- 261: A month later Tallard retook the town of Landau
- 262: There had been eight hours' fighting at Hochstett
- 263: Turin besieged according to the plans of La Feuillade
- 264: Marshal Villars is doing very well for himself
- 265: Prince Eugene advanced to second Marlborough
- 266: Rouille for some time believed that he had gained Lille
- 267: Torcy could not obtain anything from Heinsius
- 268: And Chamillard was by no means a stranger to the cause
- 269: Marshal Boufflers was obliged to order a retreat
- 270: Stahrenberg retraced his steps
- 271: The campaign of 1711 was everywhere insignificant
- 272: The states of the Duke of Savoy
- 273: Crossed the river between Bouchain and Denain
- 274: On the 30th of September Villars entered Friburg
- 275: All signed with the name of Louis XIV
- 276: The king knew the worth of Colbert
- 277: But that they do not mean to have any gabel
- 278: Wrote Colbert to the criminal magistrate of Orleans
- 279: Attracted over to Abbeville by Colbert
- 280: Said Colbert in his instructions to Seignelay
- 281: Colbert likewise loved buildments les batiments
- 282: Colbert was dead before Versailles was completed
- 283: Seignelay had received from Louis XIV
- 284: Louvois remained henceforth alone
- 285: Said Vauban on setting about the fortifications of Dunkerque
- 286: Vauban was enjoying the royal favor
- 287: The intelligent and acute biographer of Louvois
- 288: Louvois did not admit this excuse
- 289: Barbezieux died in his turn in 1701
- 290: Chamillard heard them without changing a muscle
- 291: Desmarets had recourse to the bankers
- 292: The head and founder of Jansenism
- 293: Underwent the same fate in 1679
- 294: Louvois proposed stronger measures
- 295: Minister of Soyon in the Vivarais
- 296: There is only a parson named Chambrun
- 297: Than revoke entirely the aforesaid Edict of Nantes
- 298: And besotted with silly vanity
- 299: Floquet in his Histoire du Parlement de Normandie
- 300: After sixty years' persecution
- 301: The arch priest of the Cevennes
- 302: The Cevenols were proclaimed outlaws
- 303: Wrote the marshal to Chamillard
- 304: More poetical and prophetical with the Cevenols
- 305: Cyran alone was and could be the head of Jansenism
- 306: Arnauld threw himself into it passionately
- 307: Mother Angelica set out for the house at Paris
- 308: Jacqueline Pascal was the first victim of the formulary
- 309: De Saci had for once happened to forget his book
- 310: De Saci and Mother Angelica de St
- 311: Cyran had depicted him by anticipation
- 312: Under the influence of Madame Guyon
- 313: Madame Guyon retired to a monastery of Meaux
- 314: Fenelon was condemned on the 12th of March
- 315: The spirit of Fenelon was the nobler and more deeply pious
- 316: Bossuet managed to moderate the discussions
- 317: Bossuet had died on the 12th of April
- 318: With Cardinal de Noailles at their head
- 319: Holding on his knee little Jacqueline Pascal
- 320: Despreaux supported the ancient
- 321: Pascal was unable to finish his work
- 322: Monseigneur has plenty of wits
- 323: He habitually resided at Meaux
- 324: Was the fruit of the representations of Bossuet
- 325: Intended for the family of the Duke of Beauvilliers
- 326: And Fenelon had been only a few months with him
- 327: Overcome with grief at sight of the peril of little Joash
- 328: De Cambrai for having composed the Telemaque
- 329: Fenelon had early imbued his pupil with the spirit of it
- 330: Sound and firm against Jansenism
- 331: In the first rank Marie de Rabutin Chantal
- 332: De Chaulnes arrived on Sunday evening
- 333: Madame de Sevigne always has something to say
- 334: Madame de Grignan had likewise found a wife for her son
- 335: Madame de La Fayette had very bad health
- 336: De La Rochefoucauld thought worse of men than of life
- 337: As were the Duke of La Rochefoucauld and Cardinal de Retz
- 338: De Malezieux said to La Bruyere
- 339: La Bruyere was a more sincere believer than either
- 340: Theodore and Pertharite had been failures
- 341: Wrote Corneille in his thanks to Fouquet
- 342: Corneille had died in the night
- 343: Racine had composed at Uzes the Freres ennemis
- 344: He had just brought out Les Plaideurs
- 345: Racine wanted to turn Carthusian
- 346: Arnauld being reconciled to Phedre
- 347: Wrote Madame de Maintenon to Racine
- 348: Who had requested Racine to write it
- 349: Racine never acted without consulting him
- 350: The Art Poetique and the Lutrin appeared in 1674
- 351: Born in 1621 at Chateau Thierry
- 352: La Fontaine addressed to him a ballad Just as
- 353: Polyphile La Fontaine resembled him in this
- 354: Gave at his own theatre les Precieuses ridicules
- 355: Had a place forever amongst the Facheux of Moliere
- 356: Moliere might probably have followed the advice of Boileau
- 357: Vaugelas took his plan to Cardinal Richelieu
- 358: Despreaux no longer your dear poet
- 359: Colbert had the true scholar's taste
- 360: Fostered in the studio of Simon Vouet
- 361: The growing reputation of Mignard