The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-22

mobiles and the Weather burghers fled
for their lives, but not until a series of
bloody executions, often attended by
riot and massacre, had seriously
thinned their ranks. The excuses of
the "Cabrochians' brought their ruin.
and they. too. were driven from the
city. The Armagnacs, however. did not
long remain in power, and in 141S they
were again driven out, and the Ca
brochians. with their bloodthirsty lead
er. the skinner were brought back.
-Pnlage, massacre and assassination
were again the order of the day in the
thrice desolated streets.
the next year the assassination of
the Duke of Burgundy threw the Bur
gundians into the arms of the English
and brought about the disgraceful
treaty of Troyes, by which Catharine,
daughter of the demented king became
the wife of Henry V of England. and
the crown passed to Henry in trust for
CathaI mes heir to be. In December
of 1920 Henry entered the city and es-
tablished his brilliant court at the
Louvre. The father-in-law, poor old
Charles VI, sick in mind and body. I'M
knowing of all that was passing about
him, lived at st. Paul the mansion
built by his father. in the Quarter st.
Antoine. After Henry's death G422),
his brother John, the famous soldier
duke of Bedford, ruled the city aTG the
English part of the kingdom in the
name of Catharine's infant son, the
unhappy Henry VI. The interval of
Bedford's regency G422-35) is the period
marked by the heroic successes and
tragic end of Joan of Arc. Paris, after
fifteen years of murders, pillage and
famine" content under the mild rule
of Bedford, for the most part remained
a spectator. Only once, in 1929 the tide
of war rolled up to her gates, and from
her high walls the citizens looked down
upon the wonderful maid as she led her
grizzled men-at-arms TO the assault.
The siege, however. was a failure. and
severely taxed the waning prestige OF
the fair chieftain. She herself was Sc
verely wounded under the st. Honore
gate, and at last the enterprise, poorly
organized and poorly led from the be-
ginning. was abandoned. Six years
later the foolish quarrel of the English
uncleS of Henry with the Duke of Bur-
gundy drove him back again to the sup
port of the French king, Charles VII,
and the next year G436) Paris opened
her gates at last to her rightful lord.
Charles VII had little time. and Louis
XI had little inclination to live in Paris.
Charles VIII preferred the sOmber, dun
geon fortress of his father at Plessis-
les-Tours, the SPIDERS den. and rarely
quilted it. Louis XII. for the most
part. preferred his castle at Blois. There
is little to relate. therefore. of Partisan
history for the 100 years which follow
the restoration of the French kings.
One date, however. is worthy of notice.
In 1869 the first printing press to be
established in France-Strasburg was
not yet French territory-was set up in
the Sorbonne under Francis 1. The
renaissance style of building also be-
gan to appear in Paris, in such struc-
lures as the Hotel de Vile 1888, where
the municipal assemblies wer perma-
nently housed; or the new Louvre
Q54D, which took the place Of the
older palace of Philip II. Eighteen
years later the building was still un-
finished when. on the death of Henry
II, another Queen Catharine sent her
sons to live in the city. For her own
residence she laid the foundations of
the Tuileries, associated with the sad
end of the later Bourbons.
During the troubled reigns OF the
three sons of Catharine. partisan strife.
embittered by religious hatreds. once
more stirred Paris to its foundations.
Francis and Henry resided little OF the
time in Paris, but Charles was often
at the Louvre, and it was in one of it's
spacious salons that he signed the or
der for the massacre of st. Bartholo-
NEW G572). Owing to the continued
absence of her kings, Paris became
hotbed of Guise intrigue. The famous
council of sixteen. repI esenting sever
ally the sixteen wards or quarters,
ruled the city in the Guise interests
Q5S7-94), and defed the dictates both
of mercy and Justice. In 1888, on the
day of the barricades. Henry ii mar
rowly escaped with his life. When, at
the end of the year. the arch-plotter
Guise himself was murdered at Blois.
Henry thought it time to return TO his
capital. He came, in company. with
his kinsman, the Hugenot. Henry of
Navarro. and regularly laid siege to
the city The assassination of the king
the last of the house of Valois aug l,
15S9)-put an end to the siege. The
next year G59O the new king. Henry
of Navarro, now Henry ", first of the
younger house of Bourbon, returned to
compel the contumacious city to re-
ceive it's king. The second siege of
Paris lasted until 1884. The indescrib-
able suffering of the people, the savage
tyranny of the sixteen, and the wild
of the religious elements
that had been deeply stirred by the
bitter and bloody riyalries of the de-
cade. make this second siege one of the
prominent way-marhs of the city's his