History of the Rise of the Huguenots

Name: History of the Rise of the Huguenots
Author: Henry M. Baird

Henry Martyn Baird (1832–1906) was an American historian and professor of Greek at New York University. Son of the Presbyterian missions leader Robert Baird, he spent years in Europe and devoted his scholarship to the French Reformation. His History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France (1879) — the work in our library — together with his history of the Huguenots of the Dispersion and his biography of Theodore Beza, made him the leading American historian of French Protestantism.

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First published: 1879
Category: Church History
Length: 165k words · about 11 hours
Chapters: 379

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Henry M. Baird's history of the rise of the Huguenots, the French Protestants, published in 1879. Baird, a historian of Huguenot descent, recounts the Reformation's spread in France, the wars of religion, and the suffering of the French churches. Carefully researched and warmly sympathetic, it remains a standard work on its subject.

A REVIEW OF THIS WORK
PREFACE
CHAPTER I · Extent of France at the accession of Francis the First.
CHAPTER I · Territorial development.
CHAPTER I · Excessive subdivision in the tenth century.
CHAPTER I · Decline of the feudal system.
CHAPTER I · France the foremost kingdom of Christendom.
CHAPTER I · France contrasted with England.
CHAPTER I · Assimilation of language and manners.
CHAPTER I · The nobles flock to Paris.
CHAPTER I · The cities.
CHAPTER I · The capital.
CHAPTER I · Military resources.
CHAPTER I · Foreign mercenary troops.
CHAPTER I · The States General an object of suspicion.
CHAPTER I · Compensating advantages.
CHAPTER I · Absolutism of the crown.
CHAPTER I · Fruits of the abasement of the people.
CHAPTER I · Checks upon the king's authority.
CHAPTER I · The Parliament of Paris
CHAPTER I · Becomes the supreme court.
CHAPTER I · Provincial parliaments.
CHAPTER I · Claim to the right of remonstrance.
CHAPTER I · The Chancellor's oath.
CHAPTER I · Abuses in the administration of justice.
CHAPTER I · The University of Paris.
CHAPTER I · The four nations.
CHAPTER I · Chancellor and rector.
CHAPTER I · The Sorbonne.
CHAPTER I · Its great authority.
CHAPTER I · Number of students.
CHAPTER I · The Gallican liberties.
CHAPTER I · Objects of the Gallican party.
CHAPTER I · Pragmatic Sanction of St. Louis.
CHAPTER I · Philip the Fair and Boniface.
CHAPTER I · The Popes at Avignon.
CHAPTER I · The Schism.
CHAPTER I · The Council of Bourges.
CHAPTER I · The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges.
CHAPTER I · Louis XI. consents to its abrogation.
CHAPTER I · But subsequently re-enacts it.
CHAPTER I · Parliament protests against the repeal.
CHAPTER I · Fall of Cardinal Balue.
CHAPTER I · His motto.
CHAPTER I · Concordat of Leo X. and Francis I.
CHAPTER I · Dissatisfaction of the French.
CHAPTER I · Struggle with the parliaments.
CHAPTER I · Haughty demeanor of the king.
CHAPTER I · The university remonstrates.
CHAPTER I · The resistance not altogether fruitless.
CHAPTER I · Advantages gained by the crown.
CHAPTER I · Era of the Renaissance.
CHAPTER I · A munificent patron of art.
CHAPTER I · Foundation of the Collége Royal.
CHAPTER I · An age of blood.
CHAPTER I · Barbarous punishments.
CHAPTER I · Especially for heresy.
CHAPTER I · Predictions of Nostradamus.
CHAPTER I · Reverence for relics. 🔒
CHAPTER I · The consecrated wafer. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Wealth and power of the clergy. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Non-residence of the prelates. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Revenues of the clergy. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Morals of the clergy. 🔒
CHAPTER I · No regard to the spiritual wants of the people. 🔒
CHAPTER I · The clergy before the concordat. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Aversion to the use of the French language. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Ignorance of the Holy Scriptures. 🔒
CHAPTER I · The "ghost of Orleans." 🔒
CHAPTER I · A strange coin. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Indecent processions. 🔒
CHAPTER I · The monastic orders incur contempt. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Abortive efforts at reform. 🔒
CHAPTER I · The Cathari and Albigenses. 🔒
CHAPTER I · The crime of vauderie. 🔒
CHAPTER I · John Gerson. 🔒
CHAPTER I · Jean Bouchet's "Deploration." 🔒
CHAPTER I · Changes in the boundaries of France during the sixteenth century. 🔒
CHAPTER II 🔒
CHAPTER III 🔒
CHAPTER IV 🔒
CHAPTER V 🔒
CHAPTER VI 🔒
CHAPTER VII 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Impartial estimates of his character. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Character of the new king. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Wotton's view of the French court. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The king's infatuation. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · His cruelty. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · His unpopularity. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Recalled from disgrace by Henry II. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The first Cardinal of Lorraine. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Marriage of James V. of Scotland to Mary of Lorraine. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Charles, Cardinal of Guise, and afterward of Lorraine. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Character of Francis. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Various estimates of the second Cardinal of Lorraine. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Servility toward Diana of Poitiers. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Persecution to atone for moral blemishes. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Deceptive title-pages. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The tailor of the Rue St. Antoine. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Other victims of intolerance. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · War upon the books from Geneva. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The book-pedlers of Switzerland, etc. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Marshal Vieilleville refuses to profit by confiscation. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The "Five Scholars of Lausanne." 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Unavailing intercessions. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Activity of the canton of Berne. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Progress in Normandy. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Proposal to establish the Spanish Inquisition. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Opposition of parliament. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Speech of President Séguier in opposition. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Villegagnon sent with Protestant emigrants to Brazil. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Fort Coligny founded. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · and brings ruin to the expedition. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The first Protestant church organized in Paris. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The fagot still reigns. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Cardinal Caraffa. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Henry's letter to the Pope. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · His Protestant proclivities. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The bull confirmed by Henry II. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Edict of Compiègne, July 24, 1557. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Defeat of St. Quentin, Aug. 10, 1557. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Rage against the "Lutherans." 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Assault upon the worshippers. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Treatment of the prisoners. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Malicious rumors. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Trials and executions. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Calvin's interest. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Constancy of most of the prisoners. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Controversial pamphlets. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Capture of Calais, January, 1558. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Antoine of Navarre, Condé, and other princes favor the Reformation. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Embassy from the Protestant Electors of Germany. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Psalm-singing on the Pré aux Clercs. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Conference of Cardinals Lorraine and Granvelle. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · D'Andelot, Coligny's younger brother, denounced. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · D'Andelot in Brittany. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · His manly defence. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Embarrassment of the court. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · His temporary weakness. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Anxiety for peace. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, April 3, 1559. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Sacrifice of French interests. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Was there a secret treaty for the extermination of the Protestants? 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The Prince of Orange learns Henry's and Philip's designs. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Danger menacing the city of Geneva. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · but declined by the Duke of Alva. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Parliament suspected of heretical leanings. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The Mercuriale. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Henry goes in person to listen to the deliberations, June 10, 1559. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Parliament meets in the Augustinian monastery. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Anne du Bourg. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Henry is displeased, and orders the arrest of two of the counsellors. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · The first National Synod, May, 1559. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Ecclesiastical discipline adopted. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Marriages and festivities of the court. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · His death. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · "La Façon de Genève"—the Huguenot service. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Farel's "Manière et fasson," 1533. 🔒
CHAPTER VIII · Calvin's liturgy, 1542. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Epigrams on the death of Henry. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The young king. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Fall of the constable's power. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Catharine de' Medici assumes an important part. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · She dismisses Diana of Poitiers. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Her alliance with the Guises. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The Guises make themselves masters of the king. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The court fool's sensible remark. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Montmorency retires to his own estates, 🔒
CHAPTER IX · where he maintains almost regal magnificence. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Decided measures of the new favorites. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · His desire to be indemnified for Navarre. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Antoine is deaf to remonstrance. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Antoine's appeals to Philip II. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The persecution continues. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Denunciation and treachery at Paris. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · "La petite Genève" a scene of pillage. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · She gives them encouragement. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · A second and more urgent address. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Pretended orgies in "la petite Genève." 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The device succeeds. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Cruelty of the populace. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Traps for heretics. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · His successive appeals. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · His officious advocate. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Du Bourg's message to the Protestants of Paris. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Du Bourg in the Bastile. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · His pathetic speech. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · He depicts the constancy of the victims. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · His death. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Account of an eye-witness. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · He deplores the result. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Fate of the remaining judges. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Must the faithful submit passively to usurpation? 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The convocation of the States General. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · More favorable replies. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · His grounds for revenge. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Well-devised plans. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Confidence of the Guises. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The plot betrayed. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The "Tumult of Amboise." 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Coligny gives Catharine good advice. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · It is promptly registered. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Beza's comment. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · A powerful party had arisen. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · New alarms. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Death of La Renaudie. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Plenary powers given to the Duke of Guise. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Forgiveness to the submissive. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Explained away by a new edict. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The young king visibly affected. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · The elder D'Aubigné and his son. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · Guise's offer. 🔒
CHAPTER IX · An alleged admission of disloyal intentions by La Renaudie. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Various explanations given. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Its sudden rise. 🔒
CHAPTER X · How to be accounted for. 🔒
CHAPTER X · A sudden harvest. 🔒
CHAPTER X · and of intelligence. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Marot and Beza's Psalms. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Morals and martyrdom. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Character of the ministers from Geneva. 🔒
CHAPTER X · seize the church of the Franciscans. 🔒
CHAPTER X · The public morals. 🔒
CHAPTER X · The Huguenots of Dauphiny to be exterminated. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Concourse at Nismes. 🔒
CHAPTER X · His message to Guise. 🔒
CHAPTER X · A popular awakening. 🔒
CHAPTER X · The queen mother consults La Planche. 🔒
CHAPTER X · No abatement of rigor. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Death of Chancellor Olivier. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Chancellor Michel de l'Hospital. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Perplexity of the ruling family. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Universal commotion. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Assembly of notables at Fontainebleau, August 21, 1560. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Chancellor L'Hospital's speech. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Coligny speaks and presents two petitions. 🔒
CHAPTER X · They ask for liberty of worship. 🔒
CHAPTER X · The remedy prescribed. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Address of Archbishop Marillac. 🔒
CHAPTER X · The States General must be called. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Speech of Admiral Coligny. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Rejoinder of the Duke of Guise. 🔒
CHAPTER X · The Cardinal of Lorraine is more politic. 🔒
CHAPTER X · The States General to be convened. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Antoine and Condé summoned to court. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Projects to crush all heresy and its abettors. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Navarre's irresolution embarrasses Montbrun. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Books from Geneva destroyed. 🔒
CHAPTER X · The children learn religion in the Geneva catechism. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Elections for the States General. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Clerical demands at Poitiers. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Jeanne d'Albret. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Navarre's concessions. 🔒
CHAPTER X · He dismisses his escort. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Infatuation of the Bourbons. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Condé arrested. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Return of Renée of Ferrara. 🔒
CHAPTER X · His wife repulsed. 🔒
CHAPTER X · He is found guilty and sentenced to be beheaded. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Danger of the King of Navarre. 🔒
CHAPTER X · A plot for the utter destruction of the Huguenots. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Illness of the king. 🔒
CHAPTER X · and makes terms with Navarre. 🔒
CHAPTER X · Death of Francis II., Dec. 5, 1560. 🔒
CHAPTER X · "Epître au Tigre de la Prance." 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Transfer of power. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Funeral obsequies of Francis II. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Adroitness and success of Catharine. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Catharine's neutrality. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Opening of the States General, Dec. 13, 1560. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Co-existence of two religions impossible. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Names of factions must be abolished. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · L'Ange for the tiers état. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Presumption in favor of the Catholic Church. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · A word for the down-trodden people. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · The clergy alone makes no progress. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Coligny presents a Huguenot petition. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Meanwhile prosecutions for religion to cease. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Return of the fugitives. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Reply of the Genevese. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Condé cleared and reconciled to Guise. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · secures Antoine more consideration. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · His assurances to the Ambassador of Denmark. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Curiosity to hear Huguenot preaching and singing. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Constable Montmorency's disgust. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Marshal Montmorency remonstrates. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · A spurious statement. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Massacres in holy week. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · The affair at Beauvais. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Assault on the house of Longjumeau. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · New and tolerant order. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Opposition of the Parliament of Paris. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Popular cry for Protestant pastors. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Moderation of the Huguenot ministers. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Judicial perplexity. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · The "Mercuriale" of 1561. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Disappointment at its severity. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Iconoclasm at Montauban. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Impatience with "public idols." 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Calvin endeavors to repress it. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Able harangue of the "Vierg" of Autun. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Written demands of the tiers état. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Representative government demanded. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · An impartial national council. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · The French prelates at Poissy. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · The couriers of Rome stripped. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · French sincerity doubted. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Urgency of Parisian Huguenots. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Beza comes to St. Germain. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Beza's previous history. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Wrangling of the prelates. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Cardinal Châtillon's communion. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Determination of Catharine and L'Hospital. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Effect produced at Rome. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Beza's flattering reception. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · A witty woman's caution. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · The petition informally granted. 🔒
CHAPTER XI · Last efforts of the Sorbonne to prevent the colloquy. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The Huguenot ministers and delegates. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The prelates. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Diffidence of Beza. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · L'Hospital explains the objects in view. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Beza's retort. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Beza's prayer and address. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · His conciliatory remarks. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · His declaration as to the body of Christ. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Outcry of the theologians of the Sorbonne. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Beza's peroration. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Cardinal Tournon tries to cut short the conference. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Catharine's decision. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Advantages gained. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Brilliant success of Beza. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · His frankness justified. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The prelates' notion of a conference. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The Huguenots to wait for their faith to grow old. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Beza asks a hearing. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Advancing shadows of civil war. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Claude de Sainctes. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Beza's home thrust. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Beza claims fair play 🔒
CHAPTER XII · and an amicable conference. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Lorraine's anger. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Peter Martyr and Lainez the Jesuit. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Close of the Colloquy of Poissy. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The Abbé de Salignac. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · A discussion of words. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Their demand. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Catharine's financial success. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Order for the restitution of the churches. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Arrival of five German delegates. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Why the colloquy proved a failure. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Catharine's crude notion of a conference. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Character of the prelates. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The despondent nuncio, Viterbo. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The Cardinal of Ferrara. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Master Renard turned monk. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Opposition of people and chancellor. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · His excessive complaisance. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Antoine of Navarre plied with suggestions. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The triumvirate retire in disgust. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Charles's curiosity respecting the mass. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Beza is begged to remain. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The Huguenot churches in France. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Beza secures a favorable royal order. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Châlons-sur-Marne. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Paris. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Churches visited and stripped. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Marriages and baptisms at court, "after the fashion of Geneva." 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Tanquerel's seditious declaration. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Jean de Hans. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Courteville's mission to Flanders. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The Venetian envoy's lugubrious account of France. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Romish complaints of Huguenot boldness. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The "tumult of Saint Médard." 🔒
CHAPTER XII · Assembly of notables at St. Germain. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The nuncio's alarm and activity. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The Edict of January. 🔒
CHAPTER XII · The Huguenots no longer outlaws. 🔒