----HENRY III.

AND THE RELIGIOUS WARS.

(1574-1589.) [Illustration: Henry III----388] Though elected King of Poland on the 9th of May, 1573, Henry, Duke of Anjou, had not yet left Paris at the end of the summer.

Impatient at his slowness to depart, Charles IX.

said, with his usual oath, "By God's death! my brother or I must at once leave the kingdom: my mother shall not succeed in preventing it." "Go," said Catherine to Henry; "you will not be away long." She foresaw, with no great sorrow one would say, the death of Charles IX., and her favorite son's accession to the throne of France.