VOLUME V.LIST OF STEEL ENGRAVINGS:CASTLE OF PAU FRONTISPIECE.GABRIELLE D'ESTREES 130MARIE DE MEDICI. 147RICHELIEU. 180LOUIS XIV. 344TURENNE. 444LIST OF WOOD-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS.Henry IV. 11Henry IV. at Ivry 26"Do not lose Sight of my White Plume." 30Rosny Castle 30Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma 32Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne 35Sully 37Lemaitre, Mayenne, and the Archbishop of Lyons 53Henry IV.'s Abjuration 56The Castle of Monceaux 91The Castle of St. Germain in the Reign of Henry IV. 107The Castle of Fontainbleau 124Henry IV. and his Ministers 138The Arsenal in the Reign of Henry IV. 143The Louvre 145Concini, Leonora Galigai, and Mary de' Medici 149Louis XIII. and Albert de Luynes 154Murder of Marshal d'Ancre 155Double Duel 188"Tapping with his Finger-tips on the Window-pane." 191Henry, Duke of Montmorency, at Castelnaudary 199The King and the Cardinal 204Cinq-Mars and De Thou going to Execution 215The Parliament of Paris reprimanded 217The Barefoots 221The Abbot of St. Cyran 234Demolishing the Fortifications 244The Harbor of La Rochelle 248The King and Richelieu at La Rochelle 250John Guiton's Oath 254The Defile of Suza Pass 278Richelieu and Father Joseph 280Gustavus Adolphus 282Death of Gustavus and his Page 290The Palais-Cardinal 305The Tomb of Richelieu 308Descartes at Amsterdam 316The King's Press 323Peter Corneille 334The Representation of "the Cid." 335Corneille at the Hotel Rambouillet 342The Great Conde 348Arrest of Broussel 352Cardinal de Retz 352"Ah, Wretch, if thy Father saw thee!" 354President Mole 355The Great Mademoiselle 373Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin 394Death of Mazarin. 399Fouquet 404Vaux le Vicomte 405aColbert 405Louis XIV. dismissing Fouquet 407Louvois 411William III., Prince of Orange 434The Brothers Witt 436Death of Turenne 443An Exploit of John Bart's 446Duquesne victorious over Ruyter 446Marshal Luxembourg 461aHeinsius 461Battle of St. Vincent 465aThe Battle of Neerwinden 465"Here is the King of Spain." 475News for William III. 481Bivouac of Louis XIV. 503The Grand Dauphin 505Marshal Villars and Prince Eugene 512Marly 525Colonnade of the Louvre 525aThe Louvre and the Tuileries 525bVersailles 526Vauban 534The Torture of the Huguenots 552Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 556Death of Roland the Camisard 569Abbey of Port-Royal 580Reading the Decree 581Bossuet 591Blaise Pascal 597Fenelon and the Duke of Burgundy 610La Rochefoucauld and his fair Friends 629La Bruyere 633Corneille reading to Louis XIV. 642Racine 646Boileau-Despreaux 650La Fontaine, Boileau, Moliere, and Racine 657Moliere 664Death of Moliere 669Lebrun 674Le Poussin and Claude Lorrain 675Lesueur 676Mignard 677Perrault 678A POPULAR HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.CHAPTER XXXV.----HENRY IV., PROTESTANT KING. (1589-1593.)On the 2d of August, 1589, in the morning, upon his arrival in hisquarters at Meudon, Henry of Navarre was saluted by the Protestants Kingof France. They were about five thousand in an army of forty thousandmen. When, at ten o'clock, he entered the camp of the Catholics at St.Cloud, three of their principal leaders, Marshal d'Aumont, and Siresd'Humieres and de Givry, immediately acknowledged him unconditionally, asthey had done the day before at the death-bed of Henry III., and they atonce set to work to conciliate to him the noblesse of Champagne, Picardy,and Ile-de-France. "Sir," said Givry, "you are the king of the brave;you will be deserted by none but dastards." But the majority of theCatholic leaders received him with such expressions as, "Better die thanendure a Huguenot king!"