Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 243
he Square des Innocents. Itwas while working on one of the figures of this fountainthat Jean Goujon is said to have been shot as a Huguenotduring the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Europe was now in travail of a new era, and unhappyFrance reeled under the tempest of the Reformation. Adaring spirit of… … RISE OF THE GUISES 165 kings will was law—a harbour of safety, indeed, if he werestrong and wise and virtuous : a veritable quicksand, if feebleand vicious. And to pilot the state of France in these stormytimes, Henry II. left a sickly progeny of four princes, miser-able puppets, whose favours were…
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