The History of France, Volume 3Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1863 - France |
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Page 74 - The burgesses were treated less favorably; the Reformed worship was maintained in the towns in which it had been practised up to the 7th of March in the current year; but, beyond that and noblemen's mansions, this worship might not be celebrated save in the faubourgs of one single town in every bailiwick or seneschalty. Paris and its district were to remain exempt from any exercise of the said "Reformed religion.
Page 663 - ... body. He came to be such afterwards; but at the time spoken of, he could not take so great a part upon him. No other prince or general was equal to it: and the consequences of this defect appeared almost in every operation. France was surrounded by a multitude of enemies, all intent to demolish her power. But, like the builders of Babel, they spoke different languages: and as those could not build, these could not demolish, for want of understanding one another.
Page 542 - His glory is to have fixed the frontier of France, Louis XIV. having been able to add little to what Richelieu had achieved under a world of obstacles and difficulties at home and abroad. What appeared to Richelieu himself, and still appears to his countrymen, the great merit of his domestic administration, was, that he overcame all these difficulties, that he crushed the Huguenots, broke the power of the aristocracy, sent their chiefs to the scaffold, and transformed the provinces from BO many different...
Page 379 - ... visit to Sully at the arsenal. Even in this he hesitated ; but at length he set forth in his coach. It was a vehicle without doors or panels*, the roof supported on pillars, the intervals filled by curtains, which for the moment had been tied up or removed. The Rue de la Ferronnerie being obstructed by carts, the foot attendants left the carriage, to make their way round by the market ; and the guards did anything but guard it.f There was nothing, therefore, to prevent Ravaillac mounting on *...
Page 581 - Corpus, which ordained that no one should be kept in prison more than twenty-four hours without being interrogated, and sent before the native judges.
Page 602 - The principal of which was the marriage of the Prince of Conti with Mademoiselle de Chevreuse.
Page 539 - When the little prince was brought to the king after his christening, the latter asked the ' child what was his name ? " Louis Quatorze,
Page 355 - VIL caused him to be brought to Fontainebleau, where he not only gave proofs by word of mouth of Biron's intelligence with the enemies of the country, but produced letters and documents in...