Gaspard de Coligny (Marquis de Chatillon): Admiral of France, Colonel of French Infantry, Governor of Picardy, Ile de France, Paris and HavreWard, 1879 - 232 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 169 - Catholies — grew and spread. At first the Admiral took no notice of it. But it was too much in the interests of his enemies to let it die ; forced to notice it, he wrote at last to the Queen a characteristic, stubborn, honest, letter —
الصفحة 196 - Coligny would the jealous chiefs work in concert ; to the common sense of Coligny only would the fanatic ministers defer their zeal ; he it was, and none other, whom his party trusted. And — which has been given to few men — it was Coligny alone whom the Catholics trusted. There can be no stronger tribute to his worth than the fact that even Catherine, the Queen of Lies, trusted implicitly the word as well as the strength of the Admiral. "Were the Admiral dead, she would not offer the Huguenots...
الصفحة 204 - It was then that Catherine finally resolved to destroy Coligny, and with him his party. Men sent warning letters to the Admiral, but he laughed at them, for his influence was greater than ever with the King. On the 7th of August he wrote to La Rochelle, thanking God that the King's mind was turned to the preservation of the peace : " vous n'avez, Dieu merci, nulle occasion de craindre.
الصفحة 157 - Are you prepared to hear of defection, to receive the reproaches of partisans as well as enemies, treasons of your friends, exile, shame, nakedness, hunger, even the hunger of your own children, your own death by an executioner, after that of your husband ? I give you three weeks to consider." " They are gone already,
الصفحة 213 - Are you the Admiral?" he asked. "I am," replied Coligny. Then looking in the face of his assassin, he said, calmly, "Young man, you ought to consider my age and my infirmity. But you will not make my life shorter " — meaning that he was already, by reason of his wounds, at the point of death. Besme plunged the sword into his breast, and gave him a second blow upon the head. The other soldiers, who had crowded into the room, despatched him with daggers. "Besme! Besme!" cried the Duke of Guise from...
الصفحة 192 - ' he writes to his boys after this intelligence, "count upon what is called property, but rather place our hope elsewhere than on earth, and acquire other means than those which we see with our eyes or touch with our hands. . . . Men have taken from us all they can. If such is always the will of God, we shall be happy. . . . Persevere with courage in the practice of virtue.
الصفحة 192 - ... with Jeanne d'Albret, Henry of Navarre, young Conde", and Louis of Nassau, embark on board one of his own ships and set sail for England ? Had he done so, he would have found apologists. He had done enough for honour, we should have said ; he had sacrificed all — fortune, name, and ambition — to the cause. These were all gone. He left, the apologist would say, his country when he could give it nothing more. There is one thing more a man always has to give ; it is the last thing — it is...
الصفحة 33 - It seems to me,' says Brantôme, 'that Francis never had a more discreet, courteous, and generous man. I have heard those who were at the Courts of Francis I. and Henry II. say that the disgrace of his friends never shook his...
الصفحة 193 - Behind his fortresses of Angouleme and St. Jean d'Angely, he re-formed the wreck of his forces, and then started southwards by long and rapid marches, intent upon accomplishing one of the greatest military exploits on record. While the enemy believed him to be still lurking in the south, cowed by defeat, he would gather fresh troops as he went, and march from Languedoc due north, right across the country, to fall upon Paris itself. That was always in his mind. Paris his, the cause was won. Paris...
الصفحة 113 - Jean de Montluc, Bishop of Valence, and Charles de Marillac, Archbishop of Vienne, spoke words of great moment on the condition of the Church, and proposed measures of conciliation.