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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XL
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I seek my repose in heaven, and God will give me grace to always find that of my conscience on earth.

They say that in this war you have, not made a bad thing of it.

This gives me some assurance that you will leave our poor Uvennes at peace, seeing that there are more hard knocks than pistoles to be got there." The Prince of Conde avenged himself for this stinging reply by taking possession, in Brittany, of all the Duke of Rohan's property, which had been confiscated, and of which the king had made him a present.

There were more pistoles to be picked up on the duke's estates than in the Cevennes.
The king was in Italy, and the Reformers hoped that his affairs would detain him there a long while; but "God, who had disposed it otherwise, breathed upon all those projects," and the arms of Louis XIII.

were everywhere victorious; peace was concluded with Piedmont and England, without the latter treaty making any mention of the Huguenots.


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