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THE GALLICAN CHURCH. Louis XIV. desired, without any rupture with Rome, to take to himself a power in ecclesiastical affairs like that assumed in England by Henry VIII. Under the pontificate of Innocent XI., the assembly of the French clergy passed four propositions asserting the rights of the national Gallican Church, and limiting the Pope's prerogative . The king had for his ecclesiastical champion the able and eloquent Bossuet, the Bishop of Meaux.
Meaux was taken; and when the constable went to tell the news at Paris the king made him "great cheer." There was a continuance of war to the north of the Loire; and amidst many alternations of successes and reverses the national cause made great way there.
Captain Lee will show you where to find them. Hold the bridge! That is all!" The two lads saluted and took their departure. They found Captain Lee, and with him were soon at the head of the little band of men who had volunteered to hold the bridge at Meaux against the whole German army, if necessary.
Hardly had they got thawed out when an epidemic of mumps broke out. They made quick work of evacuating those who had it, and stop its spreading, to the regret, I am afraid, of a good many of the boys. One of them said to me the day after the mumpy ones were taken over to Meaux: "Lucky fellows. I wish I had the mumps.
They were most cheerfully received, on their arrival at Meaux, by the ladies and damsels; for these Jacks and peasants of Brie had heard what number of ladies, married and unmarried, and young children of quality were in Meaux; they had united themselves with those of Valois and were on their road thither.
When they reached Chalons they heard much fuller particulars than had before reached them, and learned that the Duchess of Normandy, the Duchess of Orleans, and near three hundred ladies, had sought refuge in Meaux, and that they were there guarded but by a handful of men-at-arms under the Duke of Orleans, while great bands of serfs were pouring in from all parts of the country round, to massacre them.
But with my own eyes I saw him walking at liberty in streets where liberty for him to walk could be bought only at an infamous price." "Is there such danger for all men who believe with John Leclerc, and with with you, Victor?" "Yes, there is danger, such danger." "Then you must go away. You must not stay in Meaux," she said, quickly, in a low, determined voice.
Meldae, according to some the people of Meaux; but more probably corrupted from Belgae Melodunum, an ancient city of Gaul, upon the Seine, above Paris, Melun, G. vii. 58, 60 Menapii, an ancient people of Gallia Belgica, who inhabited on both sides of the Rhine. Some take them for the inhabitants of Cleves, and others of Antwerp, Ghent, etc., G. ii. 4; iii. 9 Menedemus, C. iii. 34
At the former of those towns he met some waggons going to the army with a million of money, which it was said would soon be followed by other two. He left Metz February 2 , and was at Meaux the 7th, from whence he went to St. Denis.
But that friend whose steady eye had balanced Elsie was already sick at heart, for she knew that never more must she rely upon this girl who came with her from Domrémy. As they crossed the bridge, lingering thereon a moment, the river seemed to moan in its flowing toward Meaux.
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