The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576: The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip IIThompson, James Westfall
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The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576: The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II
Thompson, James Westfall
France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598; Sainte Ligue (1576-1593)
The terms of Amboise are interesting because they mark the triumph of
the aristocratic element in the Huguenot party, whose interests were
identified with their political purposes and their feudal position,
over the “Geneva party,” who were austere Calvinists, and who had an
eye single to religion only.[685] D’Andelot, and to a less degree the
admiral, were representatives of this latter group.[686] The terms of
peace provided that the prince of Condé was to succeed to the place
of the late king of Navarre; that the Huguenot army was to be paid
by the government; that in all towns where the Reformed religion
prevailed, save Paris, it was to be protected; that in every bailiwick
the King was to appoint one town where the gospel might be preached;
that all gentlemen holding fiefs in low or mean justice might have
preaching in their houses for the benefit of their families; that all
nobles enjoying high justice might have preaching on their estates;
that property confiscated from either church was to be restored.[687]
Paris firmly refused at first to tolerate any terms of peace,[688] its
Catholic prejudices being aggravated by desire to revenge the murder of
the duke of Guise; but the King replied to the demur of the Parlement
that the city must make up its mind to accept the conditions.[689]
On the other hand, Lyons as obstinately refused to receive the mass,
so that the country round about it remained turbulent well into the
autumn.[690] Rouen, Dijon, Toulouse, encouraged by the opposition of
the Parlement, refused to recognize the edict.[691] The roads were
filled with robbers, and the continued presence of the reiters, to whom
an enormous sum in wages was due, was a perpetual menace.
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