The Provincial Estates

The Triumvirate

King's Coronation

Temporary Submission of the Court to the Catholic Triumvirate 43

The Colloquy of Poissy, October 1561

Collisions between Catholic and Protestant

The Protestant Synod of St. Foy

Riot of St. Medard; Assembly of St. Germains

Tolerant Edict of January 1562, issued by De l'Hôpital

Perversity of the King of Navarre

Massacre of Vassy, March 1562

Condé abandons Paris to Guise

Protestants have the Advantage at first

Causes of this, as of Catholic Resuscitation

French Nobles' Mistrust of the French Peasant as a Soldier

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Impossibility of Accord betwixt the Creeds

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Cardinal of Lorraine's Views for Reforming the Roman Church 79

He abandons them and rallies to the Decree of Trent
Elizabeth and Catherine

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Non-execution by the Catholics of the Conditions of the Treaty

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of Amboise

Catherine declares the King of Age, August, 1563
Court proceeds to Champagne, March 1564

Alva marches a Spanish Army through the East of France to

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Siege of Poitiers

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Battle of Moncontour, October 1569

Succours and Counsel of Elizabeth

Treaty of St. Germains, August 1570

Proposed Marriage between the Duke of Anjou and Queen

Elizabeth

Mission of Cossé to La Rochelle

The King plots with the Huguenots against Spain

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Coligny at Court; Marriage between Henry of Navarre and

Was the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve premeditated?

Anjou retreats from the English Marriage

His Brother Alençon substituted as a Suitor

Death of Jeanne D'Albret

Charles's Dissimulation

Seizure of Mons and Valenciennes by the Huguenots

Surprise and Defeat of their Partisan Genlis

King irresolute

Catharine dissuades him from the War

The Marriage of Henry of Navarre, August 17, 1572

Coligny shot at and wounded

The King's Visit to him

The Council preceding the Massacre

Charles gives the Order

Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, August 24, 1572

The Duke of Guise declines the exclusive Responsibility of it - 146

Assemblage of the First Estates of Blois, December 1576

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King strives to defeat the League by assuming the Lead in it - 184

The King's Brother in the Low Countries; his Death

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Huguenots

The Barricades

Interview between Catharine and Henry of Navarre

The Duke of Guise defeats the German Auxiliaries of the

The King strives to set aside Guise

Who beards him in the Capital, May 1588

The King flies from Paris and reaches Chartres

But finally succumbs to Guise and agrees to his Terms

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The Estates assemble at Blois, October 1588

Guise and the League depend more on the Middle Classes than

the Nobility

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The King driven to meditate the Assassination of the Duke

He causes the Murder to be perpetrated on Christmas Eve 1588 231

Death of Catharine of Medicis, 1589

Her Character-

Explosion in the Capital

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The Council of Union; the Duke of Mayence, Guise's Brother,

Lieutenant-General

The Nobility and Gentry rally to the King

Henry of Navarre's Declaration

Treaty of Alliance between the two Kings, April 1589

Mayence attacks the Royalists and Huguenots united at Tours 245

The royal Armies threaten Paris from St. Cloud

Henry the Third assassinated by Jaques Clement, August 1589 247

CHAP. XXVI.

Henry the Fourth King, but not recognised by all the Royalists 249

The late King's Friends demand his Abjuration

He marches to the Coast to get Succours from England

Battle of Arques, September 1589

Henry carries the southern Suburbs of Paris

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His growing Popularity and Success

The Cardinal of Bourbon declared King by the League
Mayenne puts down the civic Chiefs of Paris called the Seize
Battle of Ivry, March 1590

The King's Army before Paris

Its Sufferings from Famine

The Prince of Parma compels Henry to raise the Siege and
enter the Capital

Council at Mantes to consider Henry's going over to the
Catholics, July 1591

Pretension of Spain to have the Infanta declared Queen of

France

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Siege of Rouen by advice of Elizabeth

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The Seize take and behead three of the Judges of Parliament - 281

Mayenne's Anger and Retaliation

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Prince of Parma marches to raise the Siege of Rouen

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His success in this, April 1592

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The Prince escapes from Henry by passing the Seine
Catholics convoke Estates in Paris for the Purpose of electing a

King, January, 1593

Arrogance of the Spanish Demands

Conference at Suresne between Henry and the Catholic Leaders 294

Henry summonses a Council of Divines at Mantes

The Spanish Envoy misses his Opportunity

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Mayenne offers to have the Infanta proclaimed on the Promise of

her espousing a French Prince to reign conjointly with her 297

Henry pronounces his Recantation in the Cathedral of St. Denis

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His Reasons for the Act

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CHAP. XXVII.

The new King's Character; he is the great Restorer of the

monarchic Principle

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Scinding of the Nation into two Classes and two Religions 304

Dissolution of the Estates of the League

The chief Leaguers, with the exception of Mayenne, rally to

the King

Appeals of Parties to Publicity

Henry makes his Entrance into Paris, March 1594

Siege and Capture of Laon

Submission of the Duke of Guise

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Henry declares War against Spain, January 1595

Combat of Fontaine Française

The Spaniards defeat the French near Dourlens

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The Pope absolves and becomes reconciled to Henry, September

She offers to succour Calais; this being refused, the Spaniards

capture it, April 1596

The English Queen lends Henry Money, but sends Essex against

Cadiz rather than succour the French; Henry inclines to

come to Terms with Spain

Assembly of Notables at Rouen, November 1596

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