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A History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion at the Recall of the Edica of Nantes
A History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion at the Recall of the Edica of Nantes Author:Reginald Lane Poole General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: Huguenots History / Europe / France Reference / Genealogy Religion / Christianity / Protestant Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illust... more »rations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE TYRANNY. It has been attempted to trace the heat of the protestant oppression to the years of leisure between the peace of Aix-la- Chapelle and the war that led to Nijmegen, between Nijmegen and the formation of the league of Augsburg. A better generalisation asserts that most of the oppressive edicts appeared during the king's fits of illness. But any theory of this sort can only be true in a very limited sense, can only lead to confusion of the point at issue. Thus it is not our intention to run through the shameful annals of Lewis's private life to look for causes : there are enough outside. All that can be of interest in our view, is to notice that a revolution came over the life of the court on the death of the queen-mother in 1666. Every gaiety was supplanted by a missionary enthusiasm. Every one sought to convert the Calvinists: they applauded the success of the divine word 1 . We see here the inauguration of the mercenary, too soon to be followed by the military, stage of propagandism. Here is the overt origin of the first emigration. The sums lavished on this object, how many of the protestants were bought over, and some how many times, are matters of notoriety, and not much to the present purpose. But another epoch ensued when Lewis placed himself in the power of Pere La Chaise, that confessor whose sweet, mild, pliable temper is attested by the Brandenburg resident Spanheim2. 1 Kulhi1To...« less