We will borrow from the intelligent and learned _Histoire d'Henri IV.,_ by M.Poirson, (t.ii.

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497-500), a picture of one of those assemblies and its work.

"After the king's abjuration, and at the end of the year 1593, the French Huguenots renewed at Mantes their old union, and swore to live and die united in their profession of faith.
Henry was in hopes that they would stop short at a religious demonstration; but they made it a starting-point for a new political and military organization on behalf of the Calvinistic party.

They took advantage of a general permission granted them by Henry, and met, not in synod, but in general assembly, at the town of Sainte Foy, in the month of June, 1594.