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Protestant writers, La Popeliniere, Jean de Lavul, Agrippa d'Aubign^. A 

 groat historian, the Pols-bins and Tacitus of France, President Jacques- 

 Auguste de Thou, wrote an excellent Political History of Franco, but it 

 has the fault of Ix-ing too prolix, and of being written in enigmatic Latin 

 instead of in the language of his contemporaries, Michel de Montaigne and 

 Henri IV. 



Fig. 375. The Arms of Henry V. of England, joined to those of Catherine de Valoip, his Wife, 

 Daughter of Charles VF. From a Sliseal which belonged to Charles VI. In the Library of 

 M. Ambroise Firmin-lJidot, Paris. 



