Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... Ibid., p. 43. Ranke, p. 208. X Browning, p. 50. muttering her shibboleth, and eternally grasping the shadow of power, but never its substance. The Triumvirate and the Bourbons were about equally matched, and Catharine long hesitated which way to lean. Finally judging that it would be safest 'to favor the Huguenots for the moment, she permitted the eager chancellor to wring from the statesgeneral a decree, published in July, 1561, and hence called the Edict of July, which relieved the Huguenots from the punishment of death without a judicial condemnation, but which still refused them their principal prayer, permission to assemble for public worship. This edict was the pretext for a simulated reconciliation between Conde " and Francis of Guise. They met at the palace, where the king desired that the duke should declare how affairs had been managed at Orleans. Guise accused the late king of having peremptorily ordered the imprisonment of Conde"; on which the prince answered, looking earnestly at the duke, "Whoever put that affront upon me, I hold him to have been a scoundrel and a villain." "And I also," replied the hypocritical duke; "but it does not regard me in the least." They then dined together, interchanged vows of friendship and separated with mutual, but smothered curses, "And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield." Browning, p. 50. Pasquier, vol.2, p. 84. Mem. de Cond6, vol. 2. f Duncnn, p. 43. Browning, p. 51. Such was the apparently placid, yet really uneasy and abnormal political situation--a heterogeneous cabinet, a double-faced edict, a hollow reconciliation--when a remarkable event occurred, the famous colloquy of Poissy was convoked. The...
