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Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tories. The next year she was captured by the English andcruelly put to death. The blame, of this crime does not rest entirely on the English.They were not anxious to take her life, but the University of Paris, a set ofstrict religious teachers who had a great deal of power, declared that herclaim to hearing heavenly voices was a wicked sin, which deserved the pun-ishment of fire. She was tried therefore, and condemned for sorcery, and amid a greatcrowd of people, in the city of Rouen, was burned to death. Charles, whoowed to her his crown and his kingdom, made no effort to save her, andwaited ten years before he published a declaration saying that she wasinnocent of the charge for which she had been burned and was a martyr toreligion, her country and her king. But the people of France have alwaysheld in high honor this pure minded, patriotic girl, who certainly believed,whether others did or not, that she was commanded by Heaven to de- SBiiiilM muss mi J* illii 1 litis 1/1II111 ipfli
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JOAN OF ARC BEFORE THE KING. 310 Persons and Places in Europe. liver her country, and who let no obstacles stand in the way of her obedi-ence. Catheeine de Medici.—Among the many noted women who have hadmuch to do in shaping the course of French history, there is one who isremembered only for her evil deeds. One of the darkest crimes that stainthe record of the rulers was planned by a woman. This Jezebel of Francewas Catherine de Medici, a member of the great Medici family of Florence. When she first came to France as the wife of Henry II., she professedto have no taste whatever for aifairs of state, and as long as her husbandlived seems not to have shown any desire to manage them. But when herson, Francis II., husband of Mary Queen of Scots was reigning, she beganto lay plots against those she wished out of the way. At this time she wason the side of the Huguenots, the French Protestants, who were on verybad terms with the Catholics. She planned with them a scheme to seizeand impri

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