The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-14
LITERATURE.
REVIEW OF Nnw BOOKS.

Inc IhHuence exercised by 'the HuguenOts"
on the civilization and industrial resources of
England has never been properly appreciated,
or, rather, has never been set forth so that
the general public could see the immense ad-
vantages which the influence Of that perse-
cuted race had upon all the arts Of Great Bri-
tain. The philosopher and careful student
have always seen the immediate effect which
followed the revocation of the Edict Of Nantes,
but until now it has never been so very earn
estly and fervently impressed upon their
minds as to cause universal assent. This
task is accomplished by the work before us.
In it all that the Huguenots have done is
recited in a clear and practical manner, which
tends to convince the most skeptieal 1t
shows to France how great the loss her great
ness sustained by the indiscreet and murder
GUS action of st. Bartholomew. AS Chateau
BRAND fervent Catholic, confessed 1.-THE
execrabe day of st. Bartholomew only made
martyrs. 1t gave philosophical ideas an ad-
vantage over religious ideas which they never
have lost SINCE"
While it placed religion in ridicule, it at the
same time gave a blow to the progress OF
Frar ce far greater than all the battles she has
lost. To it can be traced the general Catholic
tendency of the French people and the infinite
superiority of England over that country. 1t
drove from her her best sons and made them
children of another nation, and that nation
her rival. The event is tersely described in
the work before us, and gives SO brief yet so
clear an account of that event, which is the
key to the whole work, that we make space
for it here:-
Having thus led the reader up to the period at
which the exodus of ProtesLants from the Low
Couni ries took place, we return to France,
where Catharine de Medicis was stealthily ma
turing her plans for stamping out heresy In the
still observed; the Protestants were allowed TO
worship God after their own FORMS and France
was slowly recovering from the wounds which
she had received during the recent civil war.
At this time CaIharine de Medicis artfuly
Margaret and Henry OF Bearn, King of Navarro,
chief OF all the Huguenots. Henry's mother,
Jeanne d'Albret, and the Admiral Coligny,
concurred in the union, in the hope that it
would put an end to the feuds which existed
between the rival religious parties Pope Plus,
however, refused TO grant the necessary dispen-
satlon TO enable the marriage to be celebrated
according to the rites OF the Roman Catholic
Churcl; but the queen mother got over this
little difficulty by causing dispensation to be
AS Catharine de Medicis had anticipated, the
heads of the Reformed party, regarding the
marriage as an important step towards ma
tionai Reconciliation, resorted to Paris in large
numbers to celebrate the event and grace the
Rgn and AmG1g 6sg fP % were r Ad &
Huguenot chiefs were not without apprehen-
be 9ns for aT safety Rd urged
the pretended friendship of the queen. mother
and her son, and insisLed on staying until the
brated with great splendor in the cathedral
church of Notre Dame, on the 18th of August,
1572-the principal members OF the nobility,
Protestant as well as Roman Catholic, being
present on the occasion. 1t was followed by
m M faoG a nd Whiph ia
leaders of both parties alike participated, and
the fears of the Huguenots were thus completely
on the day after the marriage a secret council
was held, at which 1t was determineed to pro-
claim a general massacre of the Huguenots.
for the head Of ColigHy. TO earn the reward,
the 22d of August, in a house situated near the
church OF Saint German rAuxerrois, between
the Louvre and the Rue Bethisy. AS the Ad-
niral passed, Maurevert fired and wounded him
in the hand; Collgny succeeded In reaching
his hotel, where he was attended by Ambrose
Pare, who performed upon him painful
operation. The king visited the wounded
horror at the dastardly act which had been at
tempted, and vowed vengeance against the
Meanwhile, the day fixed by the queen
mother for the general massacre OF the Hugue-
nots drew near Between n ana IN tne morn, rn,
in his chamber with his mother and the Duke
OF ADjou, the great bell of the church OF 81.
AuxerI OILS rang TO early prayer 1t was the ar
ranged signal for the massacre 10 begin
Almost imm ediately after the drst pistol.shot
was heard. Three hundred of the Royal Guard
who had been held in readiness during the
night, rushed out into the streets, shouting
SFor God and the king" To distinguish them
selves In the darkness they wore q white sash
on their left arm, and white cross In theil
hats.
Before leaving the palace, party ofthe guart
murdered the retinue of the young King o.
Navarro. then the guests OF Charles TX In the
Louvre. They had come in the train of theiI
chief, TO be present at the celebration of hii
marriage with the sister of the King of France
One by one they we're called from their rooms
marched down unarmed into The quadrangle
where they were heWed down before the very
eyes of their royal host. A more perfidious
butchery is probably not to be found recorded
in history.
out Paris. lie Charron, provost of the mer
chants, and Marcel, his ancient colleague, haC
mustered large number of desperadoes, &c
whom respective quarters had been previously
assigned, and they now fastened to enter upoI
their friRhtful mornings work. The Duke o
Guise determined to anticipate all others In the
murder of COligny. Fastening to his hotel, the
Dukes party burst in the outer door, and the
Admiral was reused from his slumber by the
shots fired at his followers in the courtyard
below He rose from his couch, and though
scarcely able TO stand, fed to an upper cham
ber There he was followed by his assassins
who stabbed him to death as he stood leaning
against the wall. His body was then IhrowI
out of the window into the court yard. ThI
Duke of Guise, who had been waiting imp
tiently below, hurried up TO the corpse, anC
said:-"I know him; 'tis he" Then, spurninl
the body with his foot he called out to hi
folloWers-"Courage comrades, we have beguT
well: now for the rest; the king commands IL.
They then rushed out again into the street.
Firing was now heard in every quarte
throughout Paris. The houses OF the Hugue
nots, which had long been marked. were broker
into, and men, women, and children wer
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