. The last of the Valois and accession of Henry of Navarre, 1559-1589. ncantations and charms. The duke, however,objected to recourse being had to enchantmentswhich God had forbidden. Le Grand Guise, as he was then called, endedhis blood-stained career on Ash Wednesday, the24th of February, aged forty-four. He was adauntless soldier and an able general; but he wascruel and rapacious in the extreme, a persecutorof the Reformers, and oppressor of the peoplegenerally. He and his brother, the infamousCardinal de Lorraine, by their joint depredationson the public purse, had brought the kingdom toth
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. The last of the Valois and accession of Henry of Navarre, 1559-1589. ncantations and charms. The duke, however, objected to recourse being had to enchantmentswhich God had forbidden. Le Grand Guise, as he was then called, endedhis blood-stained career on Ash Wednesday, the24th of February, aged forty-four. He was adauntless soldier and an able general; but he wascruel and rapacious in the extreme, a persecutorof the Reformers, and oppressor of the peoplegenerally. He and his brother, the infamousCardinal de Lorraine, by their joint depredationson the public purse, had brought the kingdom tothe very verge of ruin. Of course his end wasedifyingly pious and Christian - like. He excul-pated himself from any blameworthy share in themassacre of Vassy, to the satisfaction of, at least, the courtly priest who confessed and absolvedhim.* He advised Catherine to make peace, which hitherto he had done all in his power tooppose and prevent. He gave excellent counsels * Mimoires de Castelnau. Amboise Pare. Photo-etching from painting in 4iLEcole de Mede-cine at Paris.. AN EDIFYING DEATH-BED 209 to his eldest son, suggesting moderation in hisviews, disregard of the worlds pleasures, and gen-erally urged him to follow a course of life ofwhich he had failed to set him any example. Catherine de Medici, though affecting grief, and shedding an abundance of those crocodile tearsshe had always near her eyes ready to flow forthas occasion required, as also she had the name ofGod always on her lips, yet rejoiced greatly inheart at this unexpected breaking up of theTriumvirate. Now she was about to reign —to reign uncontrolled. But a few days since, thatdevoutedly wished-for consummation of her hopesseemed further away than ever. The stars intheir courses must surely have fought for her, when le Grand Guise, the great obstacle inher path to power, was suddenly removed. ThisPoltrot de Mere, against-whom her anger seemedboundless, and on whom every species of horribletorture was to be inflict