La Rochelle, whibsp;had derived a new importanbsp;from the ruin of the other Calvinist cities, was, then, the fobsp;of disnsions and ambition. Moreover, its port was the last in the kingdom of Franbsp;open to the English, and by closing it against England, our eternal enemy, the cardinal pleted the work of Joan of Ard the Duc de Gui.
Thus Bassompierre, who was at onbsp;Protestant and Catholic--Protestant by vi and Catholibsp;as ander of the order of the Holy Ghost; Bassompierre, who was a German by birth and a Fren at heart--in short, Bassompierre, who had a distinguished and at the siege of La Rochelle, said, in charging at the head of veral other Protestant nobles like himlf, "You will e, gentlemen, that we shall be fools enough to take La Rochelle."
And Bassompierre was right. The onade of the Isle of Re presaged to him the dragonnades of the nes; the taking of La Rochelle was the prefabsp;to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
We have hinted that by the side of the views of the leveling and simplifying minister, whibsp;belong to history, the icler is forbsp;to reize the lesr motives of the amorous man and jealous rival.
La Rochelle, whibsp;had derived a new importanbsp;from the ruin of the other Calvinist cities, was, then, the fobsp;of disnsions and ambition. Moreover, its port was the last in the kingdom of Franbsp;open to the English, and by closing it against England, our eternal enemy, the cardinal pleted the work of Joan of Ard the Duc de Gui.
Thus Bassompierre, who was at onbsp;Protestant and Catholic--Protestant by vi and Catholibsp;as ander of the order of the Holy Ghost; Bassompierre, who was a German by birth and a Fren at heart--in short, Bassompierre, who had a distinguished and at the siege of La Rochelle, said, in charging at the head of veral other Protestant nobles like himlf, "You will e, gentlemen, that we shall be fools enough to take La Rochelle."
And Bassompierre was right. The onade of the Isle of Re presaged to him the dragonnades of the nes; the taking of La Rochelle was the prefabsp;to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
We have hinted that by the side of the views of the leveling and simplifying minister, whibsp;belong to history, the icler is forbsp;to reize the lesr motives of the amorous man and jealous rival.