For solace at this time of sadness and confusion, Marguerite turned to a source that would remain a refuge to her throughout her life: books.
Fortresses may or may not be useful according to the times; if they do good in one way, they do harm in another.
He rode into Vassy on March 1, 1562, accompanied by an entourage of two hundred armed knights and found the local Huguenot congregation, numbering some five or six hundred people, including many women...
Huguenot party, as the French Protestants were called. The majority of the Parisian populace loathed and feared the Huguenots. Huguenots attacked Catholic churches, destroying precious relics and stat...
In twenty cities, or about that number, the godly [Huguenots] have been slaughtered by raging mobs, Calvin noted grimly to his chief disciple, Théodore Beza, in a letter written in May 1561. In Proven...
Men commit injuries either through fear or through hate.
Parisians had no doubt that, should the Huguenots succeed in seizing power in France, as it was obvious they were trying to do, the Catholic population would be either forced to convert or suffer anni...
She died early in the morning of February 13, 1662, at the age of sixty-five, one day shy of what would have been her forty-ninth wedding anniversary.
The day on which he [Épernon] arrives, and so long as he remains, I shall dress myself in garments which I shall never wear again: those of dissimulation and hypocrisy,
The vast majority of Huguenots supported the king and the royal family and wished to live in peace, he explained. The problem was that the Protestant movement had been more or less hijacked by extremi...
Thus it is ever in Courts, she observed bitterly. Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd.
Ominous murmur ran through the legion of onlookers, who had heretofore maintained an uncharacteristic silence. Their resentment was palpable. Five days later Coligny was assassinated, and the streets...