CHAPTER XXXVI .-- --HENRY IV., CATHOLIC KING.

(1593-1610.) During the months, weeks, nay, it might be said, days immediately mediately following Henry IV.'s abjuration, a great number of notable persons and important towns, and almost whole provinces, submitted to the Catholic king.

Henry was reaping the fruits of his decision; France was flocking to him.

But the general sentiments of a people are far from satisfying and subduing the selfish passions of the parties which have taken form and root in its midst.

Religious and political peace responded to and sufficed for the desires of the great majority of Frenchmen, Catholic and Protestant; but it did not at all content the fanatics, Leaguer or Huguenot.