Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great: Containing the History of the Life and Reign of that Monarch, and His Own Administration Under Him, Band 1A. Millar, 1763 |
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Seite 34 - ... his house from being pillaged. He came to persuade me to do the same, and to take me with him. I did not think proper to follow him, but resolved to try if I could gain the college of Burgundy, where I had...
Seite 36 - King, transported with anger, told them, in a fierce and haughty tone that he would no longer be contradicted in his opinions by his subjects; that they, by their example, should teach others to revere him as the image of God, and cease to be enemies to the images of his mother. He ended by declaring that if they did not go to mass he would treat them as criminals guilty of treason against divine and human majesty. The manner in which these words were pronounced, not suffering the Princes to doubt...
Seite 35 - In effect, the King of Navarre had found no other means of saving his life. He was awaked, with the Prince of Conde, two hours before day, by a great number of soldiers who rushed boldly into the chamber in the Louvre, where they lay, and insolently commanded them to dress themselves, and attend the king.
Seite 34 - Sicilian vespers, wanted to force me from him that they might cut me in pieces, saying the order was, not to spare even infants at the breast. All the good man could do was to conduct me privately to a distant chamber, where he locked me up.
Seite 33 - Protestants, or at least to refuse an asylum to those unfortunate people ; but I prefer the honour of the nation to the satisfying a malignant pleasure, which many persons would take in lengthening out a recital, wherein might be found the names of those who were so lost to humanity as to dip their hands in the blood of their fellow-citizens, and even their own relations.
Seite 8 - My parents bred me in the opinions and doctrine of the reformed religion, and I have continued constant in the profession of it; neither threatenings, promises, variety of events, nor the change even of the King, my protector, joined to his most tender solicitations, have ever been able to make me renounce it.
Seite 34 - I had studied, though the great distance between the house where I then was and the college made the attempt very dangerous. "Having disguised myself in a scholar's gown, I put a large prayer-book under my arm and went into the street. I was seized with horror inexpressible at the sight of the furious murderers, who running from all parts forced open the houses and cried aloud, 'Kill, kill, massacre the Huguenots!
Seite 9 - ... neither weep nor make wry faces. The princess, had fortitude enough, in the midst of her pains, to keep her word, and sang a song in Bearnois, her own country language. As soon as Henry entered the chamber, the child came into the world without crying...
Seite 38 - I know not what has happened to me these two or three days past ; but I feel my mind and body as much at enmity with each other, as if I was seized with a fever ; sleeping or waking, the murdered Huguenots seem ever present to my eyes, with ghastly faces, and weltering in blood. I wish the innocent and helpless had been spared...
Seite 205 - would give one finger to have a battle, and two to have a general " peace: I love my city of Paris, I am jealous of her, I am defirous of " doing her fervice, and would grant her more favours than me de** mands of me ; but I would grant them voluntarily, and not be com** pelled to it by the king of Spain or the duke of MaYenne.