History of the Rise of the Huguenots

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A history of the rise of the Huguenots in France

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Contents

1. A REVIEW OF THIS WORK
2. PREFACE
3. CHAPTER I · Extent of France at the accession of Francis the First.
4. CHAPTER I · Territorial development.
5. CHAPTER I · Excessive subdivision in the tenth century.
6. CHAPTER I · Decline of the feudal system.
7. CHAPTER I · France the foremost kingdom of Christendom.
8. CHAPTER I · France contrasted with England.
9. CHAPTER I · Assimilation of language and manners.
10. CHAPTER I · The nobles flock to Paris.
11. CHAPTER I · The cities.
12. CHAPTER I · The capital.
13. CHAPTER I · Military resources.
14. CHAPTER I · Foreign mercenary troops.
15. CHAPTER I · The States General an object of suspicion.
16. CHAPTER I · Compensating advantages.
17. CHAPTER I · Absolutism of the crown.
18. CHAPTER I · Fruits of the abasement of the people.
19. CHAPTER I · Checks upon the king's authority.
20. CHAPTER I · The Parliament of Paris
21. CHAPTER I · Becomes the supreme court.
22. CHAPTER I · Provincial parliaments.
23. CHAPTER I · Claim to the right of remonstrance.
24. CHAPTER I · The Chancellor's oath.
25. CHAPTER I · Abuses in the administration of justice.
26. CHAPTER I · The University of Paris.
27. CHAPTER I · The four nations.
28. CHAPTER I · Chancellor and rector.
29. CHAPTER I · The Sorbonne.
30. CHAPTER I · Its great authority.
31. CHAPTER I · Number of students.
32. CHAPTER I · The Gallican liberties.
33. CHAPTER I · Objects of the Gallican party.
34. CHAPTER I · Pragmatic Sanction of St. Louis.
35. CHAPTER I · Philip the Fair and Boniface.
36. CHAPTER I · The Popes at Avignon.
37. CHAPTER I · The Schism.
38. CHAPTER I · The Council of Bourges.
39. CHAPTER I · The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges.
40. CHAPTER I · Louis XI. consents to its abrogation.
41. CHAPTER I · But subsequently re-enacts it.
42. CHAPTER I · Parliament protests against the repeal.
43. CHAPTER I · Fall of Cardinal Balue.
44. CHAPTER I · His motto.
45. CHAPTER I · Concordat of Leo X. and Francis I.
46. CHAPTER I · Dissatisfaction of the French.
47. CHAPTER I · Struggle with the parliaments.
48. CHAPTER I · Haughty demeanor of the king.
49. CHAPTER I · The university remonstrates.
50. CHAPTER I · The resistance not altogether fruitless.
51. CHAPTER I · Advantages gained by the crown.
52. CHAPTER I · Era of the Renaissance.
53. CHAPTER I · A munificent patron of art.
54. CHAPTER I · Foundation of the Collége Royal.
55. CHAPTER I · An age of blood.
56. CHAPTER I · Barbarous punishments.
57. CHAPTER I · Especially for heresy.
58. CHAPTER I · Predictions of Nostradamus.
59. CHAPTER I · Reverence for relics.
60. CHAPTER I · The consecrated wafer.
61. CHAPTER I · Wealth and power of the clergy.
62. CHAPTER I · Non-residence of the prelates.
63. CHAPTER I · Revenues of the clergy.
64. CHAPTER I · Morals of the clergy.
65. CHAPTER I · No regard to the spiritual wants of the people.
66. CHAPTER I · The clergy before the concordat.
67. CHAPTER I · Aversion to the use of the French language.
68. CHAPTER I · Ignorance of the Holy Scriptures.
69. CHAPTER I · The "ghost of Orleans."
70. CHAPTER I · A strange coin.
71. CHAPTER I · Indecent processions.
72. CHAPTER I · The monastic orders incur contempt.
73. CHAPTER I · Abortive efforts at reform.
74. CHAPTER I · The Cathari and Albigenses.
75. CHAPTER I · The crime of vauderie.
76. CHAPTER I · John Gerson.
77. CHAPTER I · Jean Bouchet's "Deploration."
78. CHAPTER I · Changes in the boundaries of France during the sixteenth century.
79. CHAPTER II
80. CHAPTER III
81. CHAPTER IV
82. CHAPTER V
83. CHAPTER VI
84. CHAPTER VII
85. CHAPTER VIII · Impartial estimates of his character.
86. CHAPTER VIII · Character of the new king.
87. CHAPTER VIII · Wotton's view of the French court.
88. CHAPTER VIII · The king's infatuation.
89. CHAPTER VIII · His cruelty.
90. CHAPTER VIII · His unpopularity.
91. CHAPTER VIII · Recalled from disgrace by Henry II.
92. CHAPTER VIII · The first Cardinal of Lorraine.
93. CHAPTER VIII · Marriage of James V. of Scotland to Mary of Lorraine.
94. CHAPTER VIII · Charles, Cardinal of Guise, and afterward of Lorraine.
95. CHAPTER VIII · Character of Francis.
96. CHAPTER VIII · Various estimates of the second Cardinal of Lorraine.
97. CHAPTER VIII · Servility toward Diana of Poitiers.
98. CHAPTER VIII · Persecution to atone for moral blemishes.
99. CHAPTER VIII · Deceptive title-pages.
100. CHAPTER VIII · The tailor of the Rue St. Antoine.
101. CHAPTER VIII · Other victims of intolerance.
102. CHAPTER VIII · War upon the books from Geneva.
103. CHAPTER VIII · The book-pedlers of Switzerland, etc.
104. CHAPTER VIII · Marshal Vieilleville refuses to profit by confiscation.
105. CHAPTER VIII · The "Five Scholars of Lausanne."
106. CHAPTER VIII · Unavailing intercessions.
107. CHAPTER VIII · Activity of the canton of Berne.
108. CHAPTER VIII · Progress in Normandy.
109. CHAPTER VIII · Proposal to establish the Spanish Inquisition.
110. CHAPTER VIII · Opposition of parliament.
111. CHAPTER VIII · Speech of President Séguier in opposition.
112. CHAPTER VIII · Villegagnon sent with Protestant emigrants to Brazil.
113. CHAPTER VIII · Fort Coligny founded.
114. CHAPTER VIII · and brings ruin to the expedition.
115. CHAPTER VIII · The first Protestant church organized in Paris.
116. CHAPTER VIII · The fagot still reigns.
117. CHAPTER VIII · Cardinal Caraffa.
118. CHAPTER VIII · Henry's letter to the Pope.
119. CHAPTER VIII · His Protestant proclivities.
120. CHAPTER VIII · The bull confirmed by Henry II.
121. CHAPTER VIII · Edict of Compiègne, July 24, 1557.
122. CHAPTER VIII · Defeat of St. Quentin, Aug. 10, 1557.
123. CHAPTER VIII · Rage against the "Lutherans."
124. CHAPTER VIII · Assault upon the worshippers.
125. CHAPTER VIII · Treatment of the prisoners.
126. CHAPTER VIII · Malicious rumors.
127. CHAPTER VIII · Trials and executions.
128. CHAPTER VIII · Calvin's interest.
129. CHAPTER VIII · Constancy of most of the prisoners.
130. CHAPTER VIII · Controversial pamphlets.
131. CHAPTER VIII · Capture of Calais, January, 1558.
132. CHAPTER VIII · Antoine of Navarre, Condé, and other princes favor the Reformation.
133. CHAPTER VIII · Embassy from the Protestant Electors of Germany.
134. CHAPTER VIII · Psalm-singing on the Pré aux Clercs.
135. CHAPTER VIII · Conference of Cardinals Lorraine and Granvelle.
136. CHAPTER VIII · D'Andelot, Coligny's younger brother, denounced.
137. CHAPTER VIII · D'Andelot in Brittany.
138. CHAPTER VIII · His manly defence.
139. CHAPTER VIII · Embarrassment of the court.
140. CHAPTER VIII · His temporary weakness.
141. CHAPTER VIII · Anxiety for peace.
142. CHAPTER VIII · The treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, April 3, 1559.
143. CHAPTER VIII · Sacrifice of French interests.
144. CHAPTER VIII · Was there a secret treaty for the extermination of the Protestants?
145. CHAPTER VIII · The Prince of Orange learns Henry's and Philip's designs.
146. CHAPTER VIII · Danger menacing the city of Geneva.
147. CHAPTER VIII · but declined by the Duke of Alva.
148. CHAPTER VIII · Parliament suspected of heretical leanings.
149. CHAPTER VIII · The Mercuriale.
150. CHAPTER VIII · Henry goes in person to listen to the deliberations, June 10, 1559.
151. CHAPTER VIII · Parliament meets in the Augustinian monastery.
152. CHAPTER VIII · Anne du Bourg.
153. CHAPTER VIII · Henry is displeased, and orders the arrest of two of the counsellors.
154. CHAPTER VIII · The first National Synod, May, 1559.
155. CHAPTER VIII · Ecclesiastical discipline adopted.
156. CHAPTER VIII · Marriages and festivities of the court.
157. CHAPTER VIII · His death.
158. CHAPTER VIII · "La Façon de Genève"—the Huguenot service.
159. CHAPTER VIII · Farel's "Manière et fasson," 1533.
160. CHAPTER VIII · Calvin's liturgy, 1542.
161. CHAPTER IX · Epigrams on the death of Henry.
162. CHAPTER IX · The young king.
163. CHAPTER IX · Fall of the constable's power.
164. CHAPTER IX · Catharine de' Medici assumes an important part.
165. CHAPTER IX · She dismisses Diana of Poitiers.
166. CHAPTER IX · Her alliance with the Guises.
167. CHAPTER IX · The Guises make themselves masters of the king.
168. CHAPTER IX · The court fool's sensible remark.
169. CHAPTER IX · Montmorency retires to his own estates,
170. CHAPTER IX · where he maintains almost regal magnificence.
171. CHAPTER IX · Decided measures of the new favorites.
172. CHAPTER IX · His desire to be indemnified for Navarre.
173. CHAPTER IX · Antoine is deaf to remonstrance.
174. CHAPTER IX · Antoine's appeals to Philip II.
175. CHAPTER IX · The persecution continues.
176. CHAPTER IX · Denunciation and treachery at Paris.
177. CHAPTER IX · "La petite Genève" a scene of pillage.
178. CHAPTER IX · She gives them encouragement.
179. CHAPTER IX · A second and more urgent address.
180. CHAPTER IX · Pretended orgies in "la petite Genève."
181. CHAPTER IX · The device succeeds.
182. CHAPTER IX · Cruelty of the populace.
183. CHAPTER IX · Traps for heretics.
184. CHAPTER IX · His successive appeals.
185. CHAPTER IX · His officious advocate.
186. CHAPTER IX · Du Bourg's message to the Protestants of Paris.
187. CHAPTER IX · Du Bourg in the Bastile.
188. CHAPTER IX · His pathetic speech.
189. CHAPTER IX · He depicts the constancy of the victims.
190. CHAPTER IX · His death.
191. CHAPTER IX · Account of an eye-witness.
192. CHAPTER IX · He deplores the result.
193. CHAPTER IX · Fate of the remaining judges.
194. CHAPTER IX · Must the faithful submit passively to usurpation?
195. CHAPTER IX · The convocation of the States General.
196. CHAPTER IX · More favorable replies.
197. CHAPTER IX · His grounds for revenge.
198. CHAPTER IX · Well-devised plans.
199. CHAPTER IX · Confidence of the Guises.
200. CHAPTER IX · The plot betrayed.
201. CHAPTER IX · The "Tumult of Amboise."
202. CHAPTER IX · Coligny gives Catharine good advice.
203. CHAPTER IX · It is promptly registered.
204. CHAPTER IX · Beza's comment.
205. CHAPTER IX · A powerful party had arisen.
206. CHAPTER IX · New alarms.
207. CHAPTER IX · Death of La Renaudie.
208. CHAPTER IX · Plenary powers given to the Duke of Guise.
209. CHAPTER IX · Forgiveness to the submissive.
210. CHAPTER IX · Explained away by a new edict.
211. CHAPTER IX · The young king visibly affected.
212. CHAPTER IX · The elder D'Aubigné and his son.
213. CHAPTER IX · Guise's offer.
214. CHAPTER IX · An alleged admission of disloyal intentions by La Renaudie.
215. CHAPTER X · Various explanations given.
216. CHAPTER X · Its sudden rise.
217. CHAPTER X · How to be accounted for.
218. CHAPTER X · A sudden harvest.
219. CHAPTER X · and of intelligence.
220. CHAPTER X · Marot and Beza's Psalms.
221. CHAPTER X · Morals and martyrdom.
222. CHAPTER X · Character of the ministers from Geneva.
223. CHAPTER X · seize the church of the Franciscans.
224. CHAPTER X · The public morals.
225. CHAPTER X · The Huguenots of Dauphiny to be exterminated.
226. CHAPTER X · Concourse at Nismes.
227. CHAPTER X · His message to Guise.
228. CHAPTER X · A popular awakening.
229. CHAPTER X · The queen mother consults La Planche.
230. CHAPTER X · No abatement of rigor.
231. CHAPTER X · Death of Chancellor Olivier.
232. CHAPTER X · Chancellor Michel de l'Hospital.
233. CHAPTER X · Perplexity of the ruling family.
234. CHAPTER X · Universal commotion.
235. CHAPTER X · Assembly of notables at Fontainebleau, August 21, 1560.
236. CHAPTER X · Chancellor L'Hospital's speech.
237. CHAPTER X · Coligny speaks and presents two petitions.
238. CHAPTER X · They ask for liberty of worship.
239. CHAPTER X · The remedy prescribed.
240. CHAPTER X · Address of Archbishop Marillac.
241. CHAPTER X · The States General must be called.
242. CHAPTER X · Speech of Admiral Coligny.
243. CHAPTER X · Rejoinder of the Duke of Guise.
244. CHAPTER X · The Cardinal of Lorraine is more politic.
245. CHAPTER X · The States General to be convened.
246. CHAPTER X · Antoine and Condé summoned to court.
247. CHAPTER X · Projects to crush all heresy and its abettors.
248. CHAPTER X · Navarre's irresolution embarrasses Montbrun.
249. CHAPTER X · Books from Geneva destroyed.
250. CHAPTER X · The children learn religion in the Geneva catechism.
251. CHAPTER X · Elections for the States General.
252. CHAPTER X · Clerical demands at Poitiers.
253. CHAPTER X · Jeanne d'Albret.
254. CHAPTER X · Navarre's concessions.
255. CHAPTER X · He dismisses his escort.
256. CHAPTER X · Infatuation of the Bourbons.
257. CHAPTER X · Condé arrested.
258. CHAPTER X · Return of Renée of Ferrara.
259. CHAPTER X · His wife repulsed.
260. CHAPTER X · He is found guilty and sentenced to be beheaded.
261. CHAPTER X · Danger of the King of Navarre.
262. CHAPTER X · A plot for the utter destruction of the Huguenots.
263. CHAPTER X · Illness of the king.
264. CHAPTER X · and makes terms with Navarre.
265. CHAPTER X · Death of Francis II., Dec. 5, 1560.
266. CHAPTER X · "Epître au Tigre de la Prance."
267. CHAPTER XI · Transfer of power.
268. CHAPTER XI · Funeral obsequies of Francis II.
269. CHAPTER XI · Adroitness and success of Catharine.
270. CHAPTER XI · Catharine's neutrality.
271. CHAPTER XI · Opening of the States General, Dec. 13, 1560.
272. CHAPTER XI · Co-existence of two religions impossible.
273. CHAPTER XI · Names of factions must be abolished.
274. CHAPTER XI · L'Ange for the tiers état.
275. CHAPTER XI · Presumption in favor of the Catholic Church.
276. CHAPTER XI · A word for the down-trodden people.
277. CHAPTER XI · The clergy alone makes no progress.
278. CHAPTER XI · Coligny presents a Huguenot petition.
279. CHAPTER XI · Meanwhile prosecutions for religion to cease.
280. CHAPTER XI · Return of the fugitives.
281. CHAPTER XI · Reply of the Genevese.
282. CHAPTER XI · Condé cleared and reconciled to Guise.
283. CHAPTER XI · secures Antoine more consideration.
284. CHAPTER XI · His assurances to the Ambassador of Denmark.
285. CHAPTER XI · Curiosity to hear Huguenot preaching and singing.
286. CHAPTER XI · Constable Montmorency's disgust.
287. CHAPTER XI · Marshal Montmorency remonstrates.
288. CHAPTER XI · A spurious statement.
289. CHAPTER XI · Massacres in holy week.
290. CHAPTER XI · The affair at Beauvais.
291. CHAPTER XI · Assault on the house of Longjumeau.
292. CHAPTER XI · New and tolerant order.
293. CHAPTER XI · Opposition of the Parliament of Paris.
294. CHAPTER XI · Popular cry for Protestant pastors.
295. CHAPTER XI · Moderation of the Huguenot ministers.
296. CHAPTER XI · Judicial perplexity.
297. CHAPTER XI · The "Mercuriale" of 1561.
298. CHAPTER XI · Disappointment at its severity.
299. CHAPTER XI · Iconoclasm at Montauban.
300. CHAPTER XI · Impatience with "public idols."
301. CHAPTER XI · Calvin endeavors to repress it.
302. CHAPTER XI · Able harangue of the "Vierg" of Autun.
303. CHAPTER XI · Written demands of the tiers état.
304. CHAPTER XI · Representative government demanded.
305. CHAPTER XI · An impartial national council.
306. CHAPTER XI · The French prelates at Poissy.
307. CHAPTER XI · The couriers of Rome stripped.
308. CHAPTER XI · French sincerity doubted.
309. CHAPTER XI · Urgency of Parisian Huguenots.
310. CHAPTER XI · Beza comes to St. Germain.
311. CHAPTER XI · Beza's previous history.
312. CHAPTER XI · Wrangling of the prelates.
313. CHAPTER XI · Cardinal Châtillon's communion.
314. CHAPTER XI · Determination of Catharine and L'Hospital.
315. CHAPTER XI · Effect produced at Rome.
316. CHAPTER XI · Beza's flattering reception.
317. CHAPTER XI · A witty woman's caution.
318. CHAPTER XI · The petition informally granted.
319. CHAPTER XI · Last efforts of the Sorbonne to prevent the colloquy.
320. CHAPTER XII · The Huguenot ministers and delegates.
321. CHAPTER XII · The prelates.
322. CHAPTER XII · Diffidence of Beza.
323. CHAPTER XII · L'Hospital explains the objects in view.
324. CHAPTER XII · Beza's retort.
325. CHAPTER XII · Beza's prayer and address.
326. CHAPTER XII · His conciliatory remarks.
327. CHAPTER XII · His declaration as to the body of Christ.
328. CHAPTER XII · Outcry of the theologians of the Sorbonne.
329. CHAPTER XII · Beza's peroration.
330. CHAPTER XII · Cardinal Tournon tries to cut short the conference.
331. CHAPTER XII · Catharine's decision.
332. CHAPTER XII · Advantages gained.
333. CHAPTER XII · Brilliant success of Beza.
334. CHAPTER XII · His frankness justified.
335. CHAPTER XII · The prelates' notion of a conference.
336. CHAPTER XII · The Huguenots to wait for their faith to grow old.
337. CHAPTER XII · Beza asks a hearing.
338. CHAPTER XII · Advancing shadows of civil war.
339. CHAPTER XII · Claude de Sainctes.
340. CHAPTER XII · Beza's home thrust.
341. CHAPTER XII · Beza claims fair play
342. CHAPTER XII · and an amicable conference.
343. CHAPTER XII · Lorraine's anger.
344. CHAPTER XII · Peter Martyr and Lainez the Jesuit.
345. CHAPTER XII · Close of the Colloquy of Poissy.
346. CHAPTER XII · The Abbé de Salignac.
347. CHAPTER XII · A discussion of words.
348. CHAPTER XII · Their demand.
349. CHAPTER XII · Catharine's financial success.
350. CHAPTER XII · Order for the restitution of the churches.
351. CHAPTER XII · Arrival of five German delegates.
352. CHAPTER XII · Why the colloquy proved a failure.
353. CHAPTER XII · Catharine's crude notion of a conference.
354. CHAPTER XII · Character of the prelates.
355. CHAPTER XII · The despondent nuncio, Viterbo.
356. CHAPTER XII · The Cardinal of Ferrara.
357. CHAPTER XII · Master Renard turned monk.
358. CHAPTER XII · Opposition of people and chancellor.
359. CHAPTER XII · His excessive complaisance.
360. CHAPTER XII · Antoine of Navarre plied with suggestions.
361. CHAPTER XII · The triumvirate retire in disgust.
362. CHAPTER XII · Charles's curiosity respecting the mass.
363. CHAPTER XII · Beza is begged to remain.
364. CHAPTER XII · The Huguenot churches in France.
365. CHAPTER XII · Beza secures a favorable royal order.
366. CHAPTER XII · Châlons-sur-Marne.
367. CHAPTER XII · Paris.
368. CHAPTER XII · Churches visited and stripped.
369. CHAPTER XII · Marriages and baptisms at court, "after the fashion of Geneva."
370. CHAPTER XII · Tanquerel's seditious declaration.
371. CHAPTER XII · Jean de Hans.
372. CHAPTER XII · Courteville's mission to Flanders.
373. CHAPTER XII · The Venetian envoy's lugubrious account of France.
374. CHAPTER XII · Romish complaints of Huguenot boldness.
375. CHAPTER XII · The "tumult of Saint Médard."
376. CHAPTER XII · Assembly of notables at St. Germain.
377. CHAPTER XII · The nuncio's alarm and activity.
378. CHAPTER XII · The Edict of January.
379. CHAPTER XII · The Huguenots no longer outlaws.