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terview with Louis XIII., iii. 541. Recom-
mended by the dying cardinal to the King,
541. Becomes minister, 542. Driven from
office by the King, 542. Appointed to a
council, 543. Proposes the dismissal of Ma-
zarin, 584 Who suspects him, 589. Im-
prisoned in Vincennes, 589. Appointed sec-
retary of state, 607. Dismissed, 609
Chelles, Council of, reverses the sentence against
Arnulph, Archbishop of Rheims, i. 80
Cherbourg, landing of Henry of Lancaster at,
i. 459. Garrisoned by English, 545. Be-
sieged by the French, 546. Saved, 546.
Garrisoned by English soldiers, ii. 10. Taken
from the English, 228. The pier of, de-
stroyed by the English, iv. 273. Visit of
Louis XVI. to the works at, 380. Arrival
and embarkation of the royal family at, 415
Chesnaye, La, defends the Tuileries, iv. 512
Chevreuse, Duchess of, favours Gaston's pre-
tensions, iii. 464. Joins in a plot to kill
Richelieu, 465. Goes into exile, 466. Ad-
vances of Richelieu to her, 528. Exiled,
529. Escapes to Madrid, and subsequently
to England, 531. Recalled to court by the
Queen Regent, 555. Exiled from court, 561.
Her daughter proposed to be married to the
Duke de Richelieu, 600. And afterwards to
the Prince of Conti, 606
Chiari, battle of, iv. 84

Chiavenna seized by the Swiss, ii. 437. Taken
by the French, under De la Force, iii. 491
Chièvres, M. de, first minister of the Emperor
Charles V., ii. 451. His policy, 451. His
master's confidence withdrawn from him, 464
Childebert, becomes King of Austrasia and
Burgundy, i. 11

Childeric, father of Clovis, his tomb at Tour-
nay, i. 3

Chilperic, first King of Neustria, i. 8. Supports
the turbulence of the Austrasian grandees,

10

Chimay, Count of, his answer to Louis XI., ii.

262

Chinon, death of Henry II. of England at, i.
157. The fortress taken by Philip Augustus,
165. Visit of Jeanne d'Arc to Charles VII.
at, ii. 162, 163. Given to Queen Marie de
Medicis, iii. 423

Chiny, county of, occupied by Louis XIV., iv.

23

Chivalry, rise of the Austrasian, i. 15, 17.

Rise and character of, 75. Its code of mo-
rality, 76. Period of the birth of, 88. Ce-
remony of knighthood, and birth of the
chivalric adoration of women, 89. Chivalry
of the French chiefs in Palestine, 167. De-
cay of chivalry under the French Charleses,

542

Choiseul, Duke de, advanced by Madame de
Pompadour to be minister for foreign affairs,

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iv. 276. His scheme for the invasion of
England, 276, 277. Defeat of the French
fleet off Lagos, 277. Implores Spain to ceme
to the aid of France, 282. Concludes the
Family Compact, 283. His detestation
of the Jesuits, 298, 299. Whom he presses
the King to expel from France, 302.
desire for representative government, 30.
His abolition of the venality of municipal
offices, 306. His policy, 306-308. Under-
takes the administration of the marine, 313.
His policy in Poland, 316. Walpole's cha-
racter of him. 318. Enmity of Madame da
Barry towards him, 319. Ingratitude of
Maupeou to him, 319. Refuses to live on
good terms with Madame du Barry, $23.
Dismissed from office, 324

Choiseul, Duke de, receives indemnity money,
v. 346

Chokier, M. Surlet de, chosen regent by the
Belgians, v. 446

Cholera, ravages of the, in Paris, v. 461, 462
Chollet, battle of, iv. 602

Chotusitz, or Czaslau, battle of, iv. 221
Chouans, conspiracy of, against First Consul,
v. 98, 99

Christian II., Duke of Saxony, his claim to the
duchy of Cleves, iii. 374

Christian IV., King of Denmark, subsidised 'y
England, iii. 461

Christianity, as understood and acted upon in
the eleventh century, i. 75. Spinoza's re-

mark on, iv. 4

Christina, Maria, Queen-regent of Spain, v.
489. Flings herself on the Liberals for sip-
port, 489. Proposes Prince Leopold as hu--
band for Isabella, 565. Stirs the jealousy f
Louis Philippe, 565. Manages the domest
affairs of her family, 566

Christopher, a Roman chief, in the interest of
the Frank party at Rome, i. 23, 24. HS
eyes put out by Desiderius, King of the Lou
bards, 24

Christopher, son of Duke Ulrich of Wurter

burg, his cause pleaded by Du Bellay, ii. 528
Christopher, Duke of Wurtemburg, his metir.
with the Guises at Saverne, iii. 51, 52
Christopher's, St., Island of, ceded to Englan
iv. 117

Chrodinus, the Austrasian noble, i. 10
Churches, great numbers of, built. i. 82
Church of Rome, syncope of the Church at th
commencement of the fifteenth century, il
67. Efforts and aims of Gerson to establ
or restore representative government in t
Church, 73. Desire of the doctors to
form, not overthrow, it, 75. Failure of t
Council of Constance to obtain Church
form, 107. Liberal views of ecclesiastic
government entertained in the fifteenth ce
tury, 218. Failure of the Council of Bast

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to effect reform, 221. Mistake of Charles
VII. as to benefices, 247. Amount of money
drained by Rome from France after the abro-
gation of the Pragmatic Sanction, 358. Its
condition in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-
turies, 510. Why remote countries flung off
the Papal authority, 637. See also Catholics
Cinq Cents, their quarrel with the Ancients,
v. 33. See Directory

Cinq Mars, becomes favourite of Louis XIII.,
iii. 532. His and the King's pleasures, 532.
Approves of the league against Richelieu,
533. His ambition, 534. His conspiracy,
535. His treaty with Spain, 536. Gradually
destroys his own influence with the King,
537. A copy of his treaty with Spain ob-
tained by Richelieu, 538. Arrested, 539.
His execution, 540

Cinque Ports, the, fit out a fleet, and destroy
the Norman ships, i. 307. Ordered by Ed-
ward III. to arm against the French and
Flemings, 399

Cinquantaine, the, of Paris Duvernay, iv. 194.
Abolished, 197

Constitutionalists sentenced to deportation, v.

37. See Directory; Napoleon I.; Convention
Cintra, Convention of, v. 156

Citizens, causes of the gradual effacement of the
middle class of, i. 387. See Towns.
Civic life, character of, compared with life
under the feudal system, i. 74. See Towns.
Cividadella taken by the Turks, ii. 632
Civism extinguished by Louis Napoleon, v. 638
Cività Vecchia, fortress of, held by Charles VIII.
ii. 385

Ciudad Rodrigo, capture of, v. 206

Clarke, Duke of Feltre, sent as peace ambassa-

dor to Austria, v. 27. Superseded by St.
Cyr, 289

Claremont, palace of, assigned as a residence
for ex-King of the French, v. 599
Clarence, Duke of, leads an English army to
the assistance of the Orleanists, ii. 88. Has
the Duke of Angoulême in pledge for a sum
of money, 88.

Clarence, Duke of. See Thomas, Duke of Cla-

rence.

Clary, Vicomte, restores the New Assembly, v. 622
Classes: antagonism of the several classes in
France at the close of the fourteenth century,
ii. 3, 12. And of the upper and lower classes
throughout Europe at this time, 12, 13
Claude, daughter of Louis XII., proposal to
marry her to Charles, son of Philip le Beau,
ii. 411, 412. This marriage agreed upon by
treaty, 420. Which is broken off, and Claude
affianced to the future Francis I., 421. Her
death, 481

Claude, Duke of Guise, entrusted with an ex-
pedition to Luxemburg, ii. 553. Which he
takes and loses, 554

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Claude, Bishop of Turin, his profession of the
doctrines of the Waldenses, i. 86
Claude, Huguenot pastor, his disputation with
Bossuet, iv. 8. Publishes his Plaintes' in
Holland, 20

Clausel, Marshal, fails in his attack on Con-
stantine, v. 507

Clavière, appointed minister of finance, iv. 481.
Dismissed by the King, 486. Reinstated in
his office, by the Assembly, 518. Arrested,

585

Clemence, daughter of Charles Martel of Naples,
married to Louis X., i. 364. Her posthumous
son, John, who dies in a few days, 369
Clement III., Pope, grants a tenth from the
clergy for the third crusade, i. 156

Clement V., election of, i. 335. Part of Philip
the Fair in the election, 335, 336. Resides
at Avignon, 336. His refusal to sign any
bull for the dissolution of the order of the
Templars, 345. Sends an extraordinary com-
mission to Paris to inquire into the charges
urged against them, 345. How he kept his
oath to Philip the Fair, 345, 346. Removes
to Avignon, 346. Summons the Council of
Vienna, 349, 350. Obtains the condemnation
and dissolution of the order of the Templars,
350. Endeavours to save the lives of the
chief officers of the order, 351. Summoned
before the judgment seat of God by the grand
master De Molay, 352. Clement's death,
353. His mistress, Melissende, Countess of
Talleyrand, 353. His endeavours to make
peace between France and Spain, iii. 332
Clement VII., Pope, his patronage of the Duke
of Anjou, in his claim to the crown of Naples,
ii. 6. His character, 71. His claim sup-
ported by the Duke of Anjou, 72. His aid
craved by Louise, Regent of France, 486.
Supplies the imperial armies with money and
men, 479. His enmity to Charles V., 492, 495.
Compelled by the Colonna faction to take re-
fuge in the castle of St. Angelo, 496. Rome
sacked by the soldiers of Bourbon, ii. 498, 499.
And the Pope shut up in St. Angelo, 498. His
desire to gratify Henry VIII. with a divorce,
His unfitness to decide upon great
national questions, 523. Incensed against
Francis I., 526. Who meets him at Marseilles,
526. His promises to Francis, 526. Abandons
the Emperor, 526. Clement's death, 527, 530
Clement VIII., Pope, presses the Duke of
Mayenne to proceed with the election of a
king in place of Henry IV., iii. 289. Ab-
solves, and becomes reconciled to, Henry IV.,
317.

522.

Clement XI., Pope, his bull Unigenitus, iv. 126,
127, 130

Clement, Jacques, murders Henry III., iii. 246,
217

Clerac, taken by Louis XIII., iii. 431

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Clerc, Bussey le, governor of the Bastille, puts
three judges to death, iii. 282. Obtains a
safe conduct from Mayenne, 282.

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Clergy, the, support the claims of the Emperor
Lothaire to suzerainty, i. 40. Their support
of Hugh Capet, 77. Accusations of heresy
against them in the eleventh century, 86.
The independence and rights, as well as in-
fluence, of the clergy menaced by feudalism,
94. Championship of Hildebrand, 95. And
of Louis the Fat, 114. Advantages and in-
fluence obtained by the clergy during the
unwarlike twelfth century, 152. How the
clergy were regarded in the South of France
in the thirteenth century, 173. Condition
and power of the Papacy at this period,
201-204. Reduction of Toulouse by military
prelates, 211. Establishment of the Inquisi-
tion, 212. The Bible proscribed, 213.
crusade against the Emperor Conrad IV. pro-
claimed, 238. The Pragmatic Sanction of
St. Louis issued, 266. Complete social ty-
ranny of the clergy before this event, 266.
St. Louis's laws respecting the clergy, 268.
Their decline in the social scale towards the
end of the thirteenth century, 299. Deter-
mination of Philip the Fair to tax them, 311,
321. His answer to Pope Boniface VIII.
claiming the right of conferring benefices,
322. Pierre Flotte's speech to the Three
Estates on the designs of Rome against the
Gallican Church, 323. Admission of the
clergy of their duty to defend the King and
the national liberties against Rome, 323.
The beginning of the fourteenth century an
age of reaction against the clergy, 337. Their
extravagant pretensions and fiscality, 397.
Complaints of the people against them un-
remedied, 397. Syncope of the Church at
the commencement of the fifteenth century,
ii. 67. Care and aim of the French clergy at
this time, 69. Reforms proposed by Gerson,
Wicliffe, and Huss, 105. Limits placed to
the power of the clergy by the Council of
Basle, 218. Louis XI.'s dislike of the clergy,
257. The Pragmatic Sanction, which is ab-
rogated, 358. This abrogation a matter of
complaint by the Commons at Tours, 358.
Churchmen permitted to enjoy power without
exciting fear in the monarch, or envy in the
courtier, 402. Successful confiscation of the
elective privileges of the French Church, 458.
Grant a large sum for a war with the Em-
peror Charles V., 500. Controversy between
the Humanists and the Monks, 512. Com-
mencement of the Reformation, 512, 513.
Their condition in the time of Francis I.,
574. Colloquy of Poissy, iii. 44. Send de-
legates to the Council of Trent, 95. Their
grant to Catherine of Medicis, 45. Her con-
cessions to them, 46. Amount of taxes

141.

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levied upon them by Henry III., 167. Their
quarrels with the legists, 403. State of the
Church in the reign of Louis XIV., iv. 4, 5.
Condition of the clergy compared with that
of the peasants at the end of the seventeenth
century, 50. Ecclesiastical affairs in 1715,
Clergy accept the bull Unigenitus,
181. Their agitation during the administra-
tion of Cardinal Fleury, 200. Machault's
attempt to tax them, 252. Reaction of the
educated class against priesteraft, 289, 290.
Deeds and spirit with which the clergy faced
the spirit of the middle of the eighteenth
century, 291, 292. Voltaire's exposure of
them, 293. Their opposition to Calonne's
proposed reforms, 385. Confiscation of church
property by the National Assembly, 446.
Civil constitution of the clergy, 449. Refuse
to bury Philippe the Actor, v. 341. See As-
sembly; Directory; Convention ; Napoleon
I.; Louis XVIII.; Charles X.; Louis
Philippe; Napoleon III.

Clermont, Council of, held, i. 104. The First
Crusade decided upon at the, 104
Clermont compelled by Louis the Fat to subtait
to French suzerainty, i. 126. Besieged by
Henry IV., iii. 275

Clermont, Robert of, Marshal of Normandy,
seizes Perrin Mare in sanctuary, and hangs
him, i. 473. Excommunicated, 474. Killed
by the mob in the Louvre, 474

Clermont, Count of, ii. 157. Appointed by
Charles VII. to relieve the city of Orleans,
157. Defeated by Sir John Fastolf at the
battle of Herrings, 158. Becomes duke of
Bourbon, 202. See Bourbon, Duke of
Clermont, Count of (son of the preceding),
placed in command in South Normandy, ii.
227.

Defeat of his archers by the English,
227. Joined by the Constable, and the
English completely beaten at Formigny,

228

Clermont, Abbé, Count, defeated by Ferdinand
of Brunswick at Crevelt, iv. 278
Cleves, Duke of, a partisan of France, ii. 553.
Betrothed to Jeanne d'Albret, 553. Seizes
Gueldres, 553. Crushed by Charles V., 557
Cleves, duchy of, occupied by the Spaniards, iii
365, 374. The reigning duke and duchess
of, 366 note, 374. The duke's death, 374.
Affairs of the duchy after this event, 374,
375. Occupied by the French, 682
Clichy, Club of, oppose the Directory, v. 29
Clisson, Amaury de, sent by the Duchess of
Brittany to England for assistance, i. 413,
Returns with Sir W. Maury and an English
army, 414. And relieve Hennebout, 414
Clisson, Olivier de, released by Edward III,
i. 418. Executed by Philip of Valois, 418
Clisson, Olivier de, gained over by Charles V.
of France, i. 519. His bitter hostility to the

English, 531.

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Dignities heaped upon him
by Charles V., 534. Murders his prisoners
at Quimperlé, 534. And obtains the name
of the Butcher, 534. Besieges La Roche-sur-
Yon, 534. Besieged by the English in
Quimperlé, 536. Saved by the truce of
Bruges, 537. Charged with the office of
either aweing or inducing Nantes to submit
to France, 547. Resistance of the Bretons,
547. Appointed to the office of constable of
the kingdom, 552. Created constable, ii. 7
Clisson, Olivier de, crosses the Lys, and takes
Commines, ii. 26, 27. At the battle of Roose-
becque, 28. His address to the Parisians,
30. Advises the King to prepare an expe-
dition against England, 37. Fits out a fleet
in Brittany, 37. Which is dispersed in a
storm, 37. Seized and imprisoned by the
Duke of Brittany, 38. But ransomed, 38.
Appointed by Charles VI. over military
affairs, 40. Attempt of Pierre de Craon to
assassinate him, 43. Retires to his castles
in Brittany, and levies war upon the duke,
44. Deprived of his office of constable, 44
Clive, Robert (afterwards Lord), his rise, iv.
259. Takes Arcot, 259. His victory at
Plassy, iv. 275

Clootz, Anacharsis, expelled from the Conven-
tion, iv. 633. Imprisoned, 640. Executed,
640, 641

Closter Camp, battle of, iv. 280
Clothaire I., King of the Franks, his reunion
of the empire, i. 6.
Leads the German
Franks against the Saxons, and is beaten, 7.
His edict as to the arbitrary conduct of
judges and tax-gatherers, 7. Division of his
empire into Neustria and Austrasia, 8
Clothaire II., his accession to the whole Frank
empire, i. 11. Gives his son Dagobert to the
Austrasians as their prince, 11
Clotilda, Princess of Burgundy, married to
Clovis, King of the Franks, i. 4
Cloud, St., burned by the English, i. 424. De-
feat of the Armagnacs at, ii. 86. Invested
by John, Duke of Burgundy, 122. Bought
for Marie Antoinette, iv. 369. The royal
family prevented from going to, 456
Clovis, or Clodovig, Frank chief of Tournay,

i. 3. Attacks and defeats Ægidius, Roman
governor of Gaul, 4. His marriage with
Clotilda, 4. His conversion and baptism, 4.
His defeat of the Burgundians on the Ouche,
and the Goths at Vouglé, 5. His rivalry
with Theodoric, Gothic king of Italy, 5. His
conquests south of the Loire, 5. The ensigns
of the consular dignity sent to him by the
Emperor Anastasius, 5. His hold over Bur-
gundy and Aquitaine, 5. His death, 6.
Similarity between Clovis and Charlemagne,

44

Clubs of Paris. See Republicans, Socialists,

COG

Terrorists, Ledru Rollin, Louis Blanc, Pro-
visional Government

Clugny, M., appointed controller-general, iv.
354. His retrograde acts, 354. His death,
354

Cluny, interview of St. Louis with Innocent III.
at, i. 229, 230. Death of Pope Gelasius II.
at the abbey of, 124

Clyton, William, son of Duke Robert Short
Hose, takes refuge in France, i. 118. His
cause embraced by Louis the Fat, 118. But
afterwards abandoned by Louis, 125. Be-
comes count of Flanders, 127. Killed, 127
Coalition Ministry, formation of, v. 513, 514
Coalition of Radical parties, their meetings to
oppose Louis Philippe, v. 579, 583. Their
disagreements, 580. Their banquets pro-
hibited, 583. Compromise with the police
and government, 583. Their procession pro-
hibited, 584. Impeach M. Guizot, 585. None
of its members counsel an emeute, 585. Com-
mencement of the Revolution of February,
1848, 586. Its progress, 587, et seq.
Cobenzel, M., Austrian minister, his interview
with French envoy, iv. 484. States his sus-
picions of French Government, 484. Forced
to yield to Buonaparte, v. 40, 52. Sigus
treaty of Luneville, 91

Cobham, Fastolf, Lord, sent to the assistance
of the Duke of Burgundy, ii. 85
Coburg, Prince of, commands the Austrians, iv.
563. Gains the battle of Neerwinden, 564.
Receives Dumouriez into his tent, 565.
Captures Condé and Valenciennes, 603.
Besieges Cambray, 615. Defeated at Wat-
tignies, 617. Defeated at Fleurus, 661. Re-
treats from Brussels, 661
Cocherel, battle of, i. 505

Cochon, M., first minister of police, v. 10
Cockade, the revolutionary, iv. 428
Coronas, confidant of the Duke of Alençon,

brought to trial, iii. 158. Executed, 159.
His head brought to the Duchess of Nevers,
159, note

Code Napoléon, enforcement of, on conquered
kingdoms of Europe, v. 145

Cœur, Jacques, his ability and patriotism, ii.
200. Supplies the fund for recommencing
the war with the English, 225. His ability,
233. Regarded with jealousy by the court,
233. Charges made against him by the
courtiers, 235. His fall, 235, 236. Escapes
to Rome, 236. His subsequent life, 236.
Amends made by Charles VII. to Jacques'
children, 236

Cœuvres, Marquis de, commands an expedition
to the Valteline, iii. 449-451. His successes
there, 451

Cognac surrenders to the French, i. 533. The
gabelleurs of, put to death, ii. 600. Failure
of the Catholics to take, iii. 104. Given up

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to the Duke d'Alençon, 170. Meeting of
Catherine of Medicis and Henry of Navarre
at, 208. Besieged by the Prince of Condé,

616
Cohorn, Dutch engineer, his capture of Namur,
iv. 48. His want of zeal, 88

Coigny, Duke de, commands the French at
Pavia, iv. 204. Where he defeats the Aus-
trians, 204

Coinage, St. Louis's regulations respecting the,
i. 269. The new, of Philip the Fair, 311.
The second recoinage of Philip, 327. Who
agrees to re-establish the gold coin of the
reign of St. Louis, 354. Reforms of Louis
X., 366. Exorbitant use made by the nobles
in this reign of the right to coinage, 367.
Proposed improvements of the coinage of
Philip the Long, 377. Philip of Valois' plan
of alternately debasing, and raising the
standard of, the coin, 418. The coinage

tampered with by John II., 448. Complaint
of the trading classes of the abasement of
the, in the reign of John II., 467. The
chancellor obliged by the Commons to retire,
468. The rate and value of money fixed and
made certain by Charles V., 540. The coinage
of Henry V. of England, ii. 138. Adultera-
tion of the coin by the Constable Richmont,
195. Able management of the coin by
Jacques Coeur, 200. Designs of Louis XI.
as to the uniformity of coins, 343, 344. Ie-
coinages of Louis XIV. and the Regency, iv.
158. Coin prohibited by law, 175
Colbert, Jean Baptist, patronised by Cardinal
Mazarin, iii. 617. His financial proposals,
638. His discovery of the frauds of Fouquet,
653, 654. Becomes minister of finance, 655.
His financial reforms, 656. His commercial
enmity to the Dutch, 670. His political
economy, iv. 2. Deplores the expatriation
of the Huguenot industrious classes, 3, note,
12. His vain struggle against bigotry, 12.
His restrictions on Dutch trade, 23. His
colony of Canada and Louisiana, 27. Aided
in the finances by Pomponne, 47. Review
of his administration, 50, 51. His death, 55.
His views as to the importance of colonies
and foreign commerce, iv. 163

Coligny, Gaspard de, Admiral, recovers Hesdin
from the Imperialists, ii. 612. At the skir-
mish of Renti, 616. Quarrels with the Duke
of Guise, 616. His attempt to surprise
Douay, 622. His defence of St. Quentin,
624. Taken prisoner there, 626. Openly
inclines to Protestantism, 641. His scheme
for colonising Brazil, 641. His parentage
and connections, iii. 11. His character, 11.
His organisation of the French army, 11, note.
Policy recommended by him to Catherine de
Medicis, 12. Attends the meeting at Fon-
tainebleau, 27. His request, 27. His sub-

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sequent more precise and personal demands,
27. His opposition to the Duke of Guise,
28. Endeavours to obtain a disavowal of the
Council of Trent from Charles IX. and Queen
Elizabeth, 45. Admitted, with his brother,
to the council, 51. Advises the assembly of
St. Germain's, 51. Hesitates to obey Conde's
summons, 55. Joins Condé at Meaux, 56.
Routs the Marquis d'Elbeuf at Châteaudun,
67. His part in the battle of Dreux, 70–72.
Goes to Normandy, and leaves his brother to
defend Orleans, 73. His indignation at the
treaty of Amboise, 75. Endeavours of Ca-
therine de Medicis to patch up a peace be
tween him and the Duke of Guise, 90. His
attachment to Condé, and loss of the King's
favour, 92. Proposes the seizure of the King's
person, 93. Marches with Condé to Paris,
and invests the city, 94. His bravery at the
battle of St. Denis, 96. Plot laid for his de-
struction, 100. Escapes to La Rochelle, 101.
At the battle of Jarnac, 102. Takes the com-
mand after the death of Condé, 103. A re-
ward offered by the court for Coligny's heal,
104. Besieges Poitiers, 105. Raises the
siege, 105. Defeated and wounded at the
battle of Moncontour, 105-107. Winters in
Gascony, 108. Marches towards the Rhine,
108. Defeats a royalist army at Arnay le
Duc, and advances into Champagne. 109.
His plan of operations, 109. Receives sue-
cours from Queen Elizabeth, 109. Bidden to
court, 116. The King's reception of him,
117. Presses the King to invade Flanders,
117. His quarrel with the Queen-mother,
118. The Guises recalled to court to be re-
conciled to the Admiral, 120. Hostility of
the Queen-mother to him, 125. Advises a
rupture with Spain, 129. Demands a French
army to aid the Prince of Orange, 130, 131.
Retires to his château, 132. Goes to Paris
to attend the marriage of the King of Na-
varre, 133. Shot by order of a follower of
the Duke of Guise, 135. The King's visit to
him, 135, 136. The Duke of Anjou's account
of the murderous attempt, 136. Murdered
by the Duke of Guise and his followers, 141.
His memory cleared by the peace of Mon-
sieur, iii. 177

Coligny, Count of, sent with an army against
the Turks, iii. 650. Whom he defeats at
St. Gothard, 650

College de France, influence of the, in the reign
of Francis I., ii. 460
Colloquies forbidden to the Protestants, iv 6
Collot d'Herbois, brings the Swiss soldiers of
Châteauvieux regiment to the fête at Paris,
iv. 486. Returned member of the Convention,
535. Moves that France be declared a re-
public, 536. His sanguinary measures against
the Lyonese, 619. His attempted assassin-

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