The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-18
England and France Under Louis
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England and France Under Louis
Mr.. CHARLES BAsTipE has not been
very well inspired in the title of his
volume The Anglo French Entente in
the l7h century ,John Lane Company.
This title suggests that there was then
some such cordial understanding" be-
tween the two Governments or the two
peoples as is Just now supposed to
exist That is very wide of the truth
The present entente" between the
French Republic and the United King
dom. To which King Edward is supposed
powerfully to have contributed. and
which undoubtedly owed something to
his personal influence and his social
charm, is an informal alliance brought
about by. what MIR. Kipling has de-
scribcd as the tie Of common funk"
There was nothing analogous to II dur
Ing any part Of the seventeenth GEN.
fury. Cromwell bullied MaZarin to
some purpose under tho protectorate.
Louis XIV. subsidized Charles IL. in
the interest partly of the Roman
Catholic Church and mainly of French
predominance in European affairs. The
effect of the subsidies was To muzzle
the overwhelmingly Protestant and
anti-French sentiment of England by
enabling the subsidized monarch to get
along without i'arllaments in which
that sentiment could lind expression
and effect. 1t seems likely that more
subtle means were adopted for iniiu
encing tho Merry Monarch. and that
the unexcmplarv Louise de karoualle
r.. 1, ,,ri.. Ia,
Duchess of Portsmouth. was n conf
dental emissary and reporter from the
French To the English court. But this
entente such as 1t @as, was strictly
confined to the respective courts and
did not ut all extend TO the respective
nations The persecution of the French
Professionals. which Cromwell had sue
ceeded in checking during the political
minority Of the French monarch. went
on after the Restoration quite UNI
checked by any British influence. When
James II. succeeded. an avowed Catholic
who had neither his brothers easy
good nature nor his religious indlffer-
ence it was even emulated In England
and brought about the expulsion Of the
sovereign and the end Of the Stuart line.
The Huguenot refugees. the victims OF
French royal Intolerance, were enthusl-
as,ically welcomed by the English peo-
pie but received very Coldly 10y the
British court
While Mr.. Bastide's title Is thus mis-
leading. it would bc hard To suggest "A
better. II has simply struck him. as "A
bookmaker equally familiar with French
and English that an amusing book
might be made 10y runmagng libraries
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