This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...from the Cardinal, but rejoices that not even that quarrel had come between him and the Duchess. In a letter of much the same date to Marguerite of Savoy3, he attributes to her influence the Queen's intervention on his behalf, and declares that now that he is free from apprehension as to his family, he can await Death ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...from the Cardinal, but rejoices that not even that quarrel had come between him and the Duchess. In a letter of much the same date to Marguerite of Savoy3, he attributes to her influence the Queen's intervention on his behalf, and declares that now that he is free from apprehension as to his family, he can await Death with calmness, full of faith in God. The same letter speaks of the people of the neighbourhood pillaging his farms and dragging his tenants off to prison4; and it is evident that l'Hospital really needed the guard that Catherine had sent. But this guard was not an unmixed advantage. Its presence compelled Madame de l'Hospital and her daughter, who were Huguenots, to attend Mass; and Madame deFeuquieres, afterwards wife of Duplessis Mornay, describes how l'Hospital, in offering her the shelter of his roof, had to make conformity to the Catholic religion a condition: 'as on pretence of protecting him a strong garrison had been put into his house by the King V It was perhaps because the presence of these troops was irksome to him that l'Hospital contemplated seeking the protection of the Duchess of Ferrara (Renee of France) at Montargis, where she was offering an asylum to Protestants2. However, though the King in a genuinely friendly letter3 gave him leave to go thither, l'Hospital does not seem to have availed himself of the permission, but withdrew instead to his son-in-law's estate at Belesbat. 1 Cf. p. 26. a iii. 491-494. 3 iii-495-503-iii-499 Wholesale as the massacre had been, it had failed to crush the Huguenots; indeed, it had almost increased their forces. After St. Bartholomew, the waverers and those with whom ambition was stronger than religion or who had used the movement to further private ends, fell away or were deposed from the le...
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