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Identifier: storyofourchrist00bird (find matches)
Title: The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Peerless Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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<UW Sffliltnigunf Sir 5Holojto»bil4(» QOIiOWoll IP S9«rlia A LADY OF AMBOISE. 347 .348 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. throne, and niece of the Guises. While the Bourbons and Chatillons were at adistance, her uncles were at hand, and took charge of her whole administration.The nobles of older creation and prior rights, including the great Protestantprinces, were indignant at this intrusion of men whom they considered parvenus.They met at Vendome ; Conde and DAndelot were for war at once, but Colignyand the cooler heads restrained them. It was agreed that the king of Navarre,as their natural chief and nearest to the throne, should go to Paris and claimhis rights. But his weakness was no match for Guise and the cardinal, whosoon scared him into submission with threats from their ally, Philip II., toinvade so much of Navarre as had not been previously seized by Spain. The new government soon showed its temper. Du Bourg, the judge ofParliament arrested some months before, was refused
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