History of Europe, From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in Mdcccxv [i.E. 1815] 1
History of Europe, From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in Mdcccxv [i.E. 1815] 1
Alison Archibald Sir
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The Romish hierarchy had long regarded with jealous eye the privileges conceded to the Protestants by the generous toleration of Henry IV. ; and the Edict of Nantes, by which his wisdom had settled the religious disputes of the sixteenth century, was to them in an especial manner the object of disquietude. The old Chancellor Tellier, at the age of eighty-three, requested HISTORY OF EUROPE. 109 the King to afford him the consolation before he died of chap. signing the recall of that hateful edic...t ; and, so great was ! the influence of the violent Romish party, that his desire was soon accomplished. On the 2d October 1685 theaaoctow 1685 fatal rerocation appeared, and the whole Huguenots of the kingdom were abandoned at once to persecution, violence, and miUtary execution. Such was the fanaticism of the age among those in high places, that the dying ChanceUor, on signing the edict, repeated the beautiful song of Simeon on the advent of the gospel of peace to mankind ;* and a perfidious act of despotism, which in its ultimate consequences induced the ruin of the Christian religion in France, and brought the great-grandson of the igian.H;^ reigning monarch to the scaffold, was celebrated by the ^« '''»*- ablest divines of the Romish Church as the noblest 514, 5i5.' triumph to the true faith which had occurred since the first proclaiming of revelation to mankind.^ t The revocation of the Edict of Nantes ordained the immediate destruction of the temples for the Huguenot itsextnme worship which still remained ; it prohibited over the '•'^^* * " Le Chancelier Tellier, ftg6 de qtiatre-vingtrtrois ana, malade, et qui ae sentoit prte de mourir, demanda au Roi de lui accorder la consolation de signer avant de monrir un 6dit qui porteroit revocation -de TEdit de Nantes : il le signa en effet le 2 Octobre 1685 ; et avec un fanatisme qui &it fr6mir, il rteita le Cantique de Simeon, appliquant 4 cet acte fiirouche les fi^licitations qui, dans la bouche du vieillard H^reuz, se lapportaient au Salut du genre humain.** — SiSMONDi, H-utoire des Fran^ait, zxv.
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