The history of France, tr. by R. Black. (Vol. 6-8 ed. by madame de Witt). |
Términos y frases comunes
admiral ambassador amongst arms army arrived battle Berquin Biron bishop Bourbon brother cardinal cardinal of Lorraine castle Catherine catholic cause chancellor Charles Charles IX Church Coligny constable council court crown death desire duke of Anjou duke of Guise duke of Mayenne Duprat edict emperor enemy entered faith favour French friends gave give hand head Henry III Henry IV Henry VIII Histoire honour horse huguenots Italy king of France king of Navarre king's kingdom League Leaguers liberty lord Lorraine Louis Louise of Savoy Majesty Marguerite Marguerite de Valois Marshal massacre Medici Mémoires Montmorency mother negotiations never parliament of Paris party passions peace person Philip Picardy pope prince of Condé prisoner promised Protestants provinces queen queen-mother received reformers reign religion religious Rosny royal says sent sixteenth century Spain states-general Sully Thou thousand took town treaty troops Valois victory whilst words wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 378 - I honor you more than I do the pope, and I love my sister more than I fear him. I am not a Huguenot, but no more am I an ass.
Página 620 - Conde", and keep her near my family. That shall be the consolation and the support of the old age which is coming upon me. I shall give my nephew, who is young and loves hunting ten thousand times better than women, a hundred thousand francs a year to pass his time, and I want no other favor from her but her affection, without looking for anything more.
Página 555 - The populace was with difficulty restrained from storming their college ; and all the members of the society were at length condemned, as seducers of youth, disturbers of the public peace, and enemies of the king and state...
Página 4 - ... this was all her dream and all her aim as a mother. Of quite another sort were the character and sentiments of Marguerite de Valois. She was born on the llth of April, 1492, and was, therefore, only two years older than her brother Francis ; but her more delicate nature was sooner and more richly cultivated and developed. She was brought up "with strictness by a most excellent and most venerable dame, in whom all the virtues, at rivalry one with another, existed together" [Madame de Chatillon,...
Página 504 - As he thus went on visiting and establishing all his posts around Paris, the investment became more strict; it was kept up for more than three months, from the end of May to the beginning of September, 1590 ; and the city was reduced to a severe state of famine which would have been still more severe if Henry IV. had not several times over permitted the entry of some convoys of provisions and the exit of the old men, the women, the children, in fact, the poor est and weakest part of the population....
Página 201 - My desire to obey your commands was sufficiently strong without having it redoubled by the charity you have been pleased to show to poor Berquin according to your promise; I feel sure that He for whom I believe him to have suffered will approve of the mercy which, for His honor, you have had upon His servant and yours.
Página 215 - I, for the last time, make you a very humble request ; it is, that you will be pleased to have pity upon poor Berquin, whom I know to be suffering for nothing but loving the word of God and obeying yours. You will be pleased, Monseigneur, so to act that it be not said that separation has made you forget your most humble and most obedient subject and sister, Marguerite" We can discover no trace of any reply whatever from Francis I.
Página 380 - Coligny might have considered himself the victor in this struggle; at his instance Charles IX. had written on the 27th of April to Count Louis of Nassau, leader of the protestant insurrection in Hainault, "that he was determined, so far as opportunities and the arrangements of his affairs permitted him, to employ the powers which God had put into his hands for the deliverance of the Low Countries from the oppression under which they were groaning.
Página 378 - It was in deep mourning that her son, become king of Navarre, arrived at court, attended by eight hundred gentlemen, all likewise in mourning; "But...
Página 187 - How shameful it is," he would say, " to see a bishop soliciting people to drink with him, caring for naught but gaming, constantly hAndling the dice and the dice-box, constantly hunting, hallooing after birds and game, frequenting bad houses...