HENRY. 
The king of Navarre fete, in a 581, the Catholic army. 
The duke of Guife, « 
alcastage over the epee and their allies; but on his 
a to Paris the “gates were fhut againit him. ‘The 
people, ‘how ever, were attached to Guife, “and the king was 
obliged tg retire from his capital, which was commanded by 1 
the head of the Catholic league. "Thus France was divided 
into three parties, the Roy ali‘ts, the Guifes, and the Hu- 
suenots. At length the two firit were reconciled in appear- 
ance, but Henry caufed the duke to be aflaffinated with his 
brother the cardinal. ane flames of civil war broke out with 
additional fury. a excommunicated the king, and 
his own parfnent infhituted a criminal procefs againit him, 
In this exigen iad recourfe to the king of Navarre, 
who {fet out _on his march to Paris, but the face of affairs 
was a dodtesly changed by the death of the king of France, 
aflaffinated in 1589, by James Clement, a 
nican eek Thus, he who had been the death of multi- 
tudes, and who, with the mott artful hypocrify, had caufed 
the Guifes to be maffacred, fell him elf by the hand of an 
aflaffin, who had been led to believe that the at would prove 
beneficial to the church and world. Henry III. lived long 
enough to be generally hated and defpifed by his fubjects, 
LS tae oe se 
few of whom probably offered one figh when the news of 1 
his death was promulgated : he, neverthelefs, pofleffed many 
al that might have rendered hia illuftrious and po- 
ith him, as we have feen cli hers, ended the a 
breach of the houfe of Valois. See Fra 
x IV., kin ng of France and Toots. called the 
Grea ae f 
mpera 
ewis IX. “of France, a 
me the heir of at kingdom, but as he was cAncared a 
Protellant, his claim was refi led He early diftinguifhed 
himfelf in arms: he learned the art of war under the admiral 
Coligny, and was proud to imitate fo arse a model. After : 
the peace a suk Germain in 1570, he went to Paris, and _ 
two rwards married the fitter of Charles IX. This 
inion was pa ieee at the moment that Charles and his mo- 
ther Catharine were plotting the deftruction of the ice 
not party. e execrable St. Bartholomew foon followed, 
and on that Hist day Henry was igs ht before the king, 
whofe throne was, as it were, in eftant blood, 
and who, with a countenance well slated to the infamy of 
the deed, gave him his option of Mafs, Death, or the Battile ; 
p. the moment. of furprife and horror. he c fe the firft. 
rom thi 
eing defcended from J 
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tHe 
means ‘a efcap 
newed his profeffion o 
the r sade Eile 5 ‘and put him- 
felf at oP head of the Hognctot party. In the war whic 
followe ormed all the duties of the hardy foldier, as 
well as thot, of the brave tae A He flept in his tent 
upon read, | the 
works and batteries, and sxboles Be himfelf pai pal 
Sate The cheerful franknefs of his manners rendered him 
extremely pop’ Se one tite who emulated his ex- 
es aud followed him with enthufiafm. ‘He fupported 
and, obtained a fignal 
omi- an 
d federative republic, confifting of p 
o 
nothing could refill his impetuous valour, 
ea bloe oy cteme 
couraged commerce and the arts. 
tained the Proj ‘et of diminifhing the overgrown 
the houfe o Anita, and to this i joined t 
probably aimerial {cheme of foeeing-& a kind of "bonne 
that they fhould be able to patie foture ar 
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ex would be fufficiently power: ee 
nieve | the people for melioratin é oe condition cule 
indeed, eftablifh in every count i Gere 
none daring to refift their ae ge Sl o 
made for this enterprize ; res fums of money. sey were forces 
erie weirs magazines pitta Rtg 4 
"alliance head of the nae 
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and earefi ciplined ; 
nothing delayed the: kin Dyan gern a at Fae beet 
but the ceremony of ee 
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