Identifier: greatestnations05elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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needto exert all her strength. She hurried to the King, confessed that she, hismother, was the guilty one, told him the Catholics were all with her, andwould depose him if he faltered. She pointed to the fury of the Huguenots,who surely would not believe or uphold him against her; and finally she wrungfrom the weak lad his consent that not only Coligny, but every Huguenot inFrance should be slain. If my poor Admiral must die, he cried in a frenzy,let not one of them survive to reproach me for his death. On the eve of St. Bartholomews Day, that is, in the night time before thedawning of August 24, 1572, eager murderers suddenly fell upon all theHuguenots of Paris. Some say two thousand were slain, some ten thousand.The bodies cumbered the streets; the Seine ran with blood. Coligny was stabbed in his bedroom and the corpse tossed out of the win-dow, where the triumphant young Duke Henry of Guise, successor to hisfathers power, spurned the venerable body with his foot. You must turn to I
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France—The St. Bartholomew 869 larger volumes to read of all the horrors as well as all the generous deeds thatmarked that awful night. The slaughter spread all through France, but nowhere did it reach thecompleteness or success it had achieved in Paris. As regards its avowed pur-pose, the massacre of St. Bartholomew was an utter failure. So frightful acrime could be nothing but a failure. The surviving Huguenots rushed toarms in murderous passion. Once more the civil strife began, and once moreCatharine engineered a peace. Peace! There would be no further peace forthe wretched King. His victims were ever before his eye>. Their screamshaunted his dreams, and he died within two years, shrieking and cowering withfright. The merciful oblivion of entire madness was denied him.

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