Identifier: worldsstoryhisto14tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed. The death of Francis, duke of Alenfon(since the accession of Henry III., dsike of Anjou), the youngerbrother of the king, in 1584 rendered the extinction of the house ofValois certain. As it was the intention of the League to excludefrom the throne Henry of Navarre, who belonged to the reformedreligion, and to give the crown to the latters uncle, the Cardinal ofBourbon, and as the League meantime induced the king to revoke theconcessions granted to the Huguenots, there broke out the1585-1589. Eighth Civil War called the War of the ThreeHenrys (Henry III. of Valois, Henry of Navarre, Henry ofGuise). The Catholic party triumphed in spite of the victory ofCoutras (Oct. 20, 1587), gained by Henry of Navarre. Formationof the League of Sixteen at Paris, which purposed the depositionof the weak king. Guise entered Paris, was received with ac-clamation ( King of Paris ) ; the timid resistance of the king wasbroken by a popular insurrection (day of the Barricades, May 12, A. D. France. 323
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