Note 57 — BOOK II. FROM THE OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE OF POISSY TO THE EDICT OF NANTES. (1561-1598.) (continued 2)
Philip Edward Barnes translation
A writer of the present day, M. Capefigue, carrying the ideas and the passions of the nineteenth into the sixteenth century, insists that Charles IX. and his court were coerced by the people of the markets, and that the masses were moved by hatred against the gentry, or the Huguenot aristocracy. Then applying to these allegations the system of revolutionary fatality, he concludes that no one is to be blamed. (La Réforme et la Ligue, pp. 341, 346, 361, 373, et passim.) Such dreams are pointed out to the reader; they are unworthy of refutation!