The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

54EISE AND PKOGKESS OF HUGUENOTS.
introd . covered with a bloody sweat, and in sobs and
1574- tears over the murdered Huguenots. And
seven months later, December 23d, Cardinal
Lorraine died also. Both of them bitter enemies
of the Huguenots followed their victims
to the bar of God, with no reward in this life
for their cruelty, and nothing to expect in the
life beyond, save the mercy of their Henry
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judge.
The ill-omencd crown of Charles IX. fell
to Henry of Anjou (Henry III.), King of
Poland, the next brother, his mother ^s favorite,
and the worst of a bad breed. When he
heard of his brother's death, he was only too
eager to slip away from Poland like a culprit
and hasten to Paris, lest the French crown
should slip from him. And he even dallied
with the pleasures of Italy for months after-
wards. An attempt was made to draw him
over to the Politiques, but it failed. He attached
himself to the Guises, and plunged into
the grossest dissipation, while he posed before
the people as a good and zealous Romanist.
The Politiques and Huguenots made a com-
1575- pact in 1575, at Milhaud on the Tarn, and
chose the Prince of Conde as their head, who
returned from Germany, March 1576, with an
army, and was joined by the Duke of Alencon,
who was at enmity with the King. About the
same time, Henry, King of Navarre, while on
a hunting expedition, escaped from the vigilance
kept over him by the court; renounced
the Catholicism forced upon him on St. Bartholomew's
day, and joined them. He was
making rapid progress in the South. Against
this new movement the Romanists seemed
powerless. The court became alarmed and
iJyJigy finally concluded the peace of Beaulieu, May,
1576. '1576, with terms unusually favorable to both