o* FRANCE 
to Italy in order to fecure the conqueft of. Naples, which 
he claimed as his ri 
ount, he mi 
raifed himfelf to the higheft p itch of celebrity. 
abandoned himfelf to pleafure, if which furrounding princes 
took the adv iene combined againft him, and divefted him 
of his new Kingdom in as fhort atime ashe had employed in 
the acquifition se it. e died at the age of 28. 
e fuccelfor to Charles, rendered himfelf 
: he had 
ith pope Juli 
faid to be a better fo Idier sor ecclefi We ic. oly 
at one perio a was ever took cities, and won 
battles, till he met with a ae fr es the Fre ari 
Lewis put ane spe er and co ary many 
dangerous age into friends by the marriages which he ; 
negocia To ee of Spain he offered his bay ane 
o 
of the mariage his ae ms ¢ 
misfortun example of his pe ors, he in- 
vaded Italy these feel ‘When he akcended the throne, 
he was young, ambitious, and a candidate for the imperial 
crown in ee ich was the c 
amo whom 
The French amd Englifh 
monarchs, at an interview at “* Le Champ du drap 
d’Or,’’ had {worn to maintain a fincere friendfhip, but enticed 
by Charles, Henry forgot his oath, and took part againft 
“his friend 
ncis, in an attack upon Pavia, was beaten 
and taken prifoner. ‘The conqueror. id not exhibit towards 
he fallen monarch that generofity and franknefs which he m 
promifed con ent, . 
e, it is true, after two years em 
fuch conditions as could n 
a league, formed with the 
; but by the intervention of the : 
n years was concluded; war however 
his life i in ae baal rat: Phin of his reign. He was fuc- 
0 om no orable acts are re- 
corded ; cat pe ae his reign oo eae of Guienne rebelled 
againft the governme ount of the oppreflive conduct 
of the officers who levied the “fale tax, and were with diffi- 
culty brought to fubmiffion. After this, the eet began to 
execute the edicts which had been made againft the: Protef- 
tants with the utmoft feverity, to caufe multitudes of them 
to be burnt, and he is faid a to have taken pleafure in 
the favage eat agile 
ae 
® 
peace was re-eftablifhe Eure oO y the us treaty 
Chateau be IO m sacl aa every prince of Chrif- 
ndom was comprehended ; a ter the king was 
killed at a tournament by cou 
reckoned one of the ftrongeft pare in France, and whe 
had done all in his power to avoid this.encounter with the mo« 
sole The reign of Francis IL, fucceffor to Henry IL. < 
O. n 
r aiken, and have been 
noticed in hiltory by the inns that preceded or at- 
tended them. The maffacre of the Proteftants at Vaffi in 
1562 ve the duke of Guife’s attendants was the fignal of 
the j 
to another rupture 
v 
formed againit the houfe of Guile, pin ‘hoftilities were re- 
newed, but at the commencement of this war Charles was 
removed by a violent diforder. He lingered indeed for fome 
time, under the moft terrible agonies both of body and mind : 
and it is faid that after the dreadful maflacre of St. Bartho« 
duration, and perpetually a eque 
ly in the u i cold. be “invented to 
a 
He ied 
oft. terrible. confequences enfued. 
tions quickly fucceeded one another, ' till at length t 
was nearly depofed by the 
nated, when the party were in the 2 a of driving him yin the | 
kingdom, This murder inflamed the confederates bilaeas the 
- minjican vib engaged to perpetrate the deed, and aGually” 
ftabbed the hao as he ae reading fome letters at St. 
oud. us died Hen: I. ‘a man endowed with fuc 
arenlities as Mould have been judged worthy of a shrone had 
e never been calle - to bag high fituation. © In him the fa- 
mily of the Valois 
Before the king? SF death, he = nominated as his fuceeffor 
Henry Bourbon kin ing of — 3 to thts honour he h 
