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She was so rancorous in her hostility to the Protestants that she was designated by them "Mother of the tyrants and enemies of the Gospel." Greatly to her annoyance, a large number of Protestants conducted their worship in the little town of Vassy, just on the frontier of the domains of the Duke of Guise. She was incessantly imploring her son to drive off these obnoxious neighbors.
In regard to the geographical extent of the Wealden, it can not be accurately laid down, because so much of it is concealed beneath the newer marine formations. It has been traced about 320 English miles from west to east, from the coast of Dorsetshire to near Boulogne, in France; and nearly 200 miles from north-west to south-east, from Surrey and Hampshire to Vassy, in France.
Power of the house of Guise. Appointment of Francis. Thralldom of Henry II. Mary, Queen of Scots. Francis II. Troubles between the Protestants and Catholics. Admiral Coligni. Antoinette. Massacre by the Duke of Guise. The Butcher of Vassy. Remonstrance to the queen. Magnanimity of the Duke of Guise. Religious wars. Assassination of the Duke of Guise. Death of the duke. Jean Poltrot. Anecdote.
As he was passing through the town of Vassy on a Sunday he found a thousand Huguenots assembled in a barn for worship. The duke's followers rudely interrupted the service, and a tumult arose in which the troops killed a considerable number of the defenseless multitude.
"A fine example," exclaims his historian, "of truly religious sentiments and magnanimous proselytism very natural to the Duke of Guise, the most moderate and humane of the chiefs of the Catholic army, and whose brilliant generosity had been but temporarily obscured by the occurrence at Vassy."
Catherine wished for peace, without a rupture with the Pope and Philip II. CIVIL WAR. It was impossible to prevent outbreakings of violence against the hated dissenters. The Guises and their associates were resolved not to allow toleration. The event that occasioned war was the massacre of Vassy.
"What's the matter with you, my good sir?" his chief asks him. "What is it?" Vassy a waves his hand and sits down. "Don't ask me, your Excellency," he says with a sigh. "What I have suffered in these two days, what I have suffered! Liza has been ill!" "Good heavens," cried his chief in alarm. "Lizaveta Pavlovna, what is wrong with her?"
This army thus held the Forests of Vassy but was confronted by the marshes of St. Gand. Confronting this right center was, first of all, General Conneau's Cavalry Corps, which was in touch with the right wing of the British army under Sir John French. Then, holding the line from Esternay to Courtaçon lay the Fifth French Army under General d'Espérey.
"It is true that the church of God should endure blows and not inflict them," said De Beze, "but remember, I pray you, that it is an anvil which has used up a great many hammers." The massacre of Vassy, the name which has remained affixed to it in history, rapidly became contagious.
Protestant fanaticism met Catholic fanaticism, and as news of the massacre at Vassy spread through England the Protestant preachers called for the death of "Papists." The tidings of Dreux spread panic through the realm. The Parliament which met again in January 1563 showed its terror by measures of a new severity.
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