les persécutions. See below, chap. xxxvi. p. 157 ff

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1. 7. tous les dehors de la bienséance^ ail that the rules of public propriety demand.

1. 30. avant l'entière réconciliation. The reconciliation between Henry IV and the Duke de Mayenne took place in 1596.

1. 35. passage du Rhin, in the invasion of Holland in 1672 : for a full account see above, vol. i. p. 114. Valenciennes was taken in the same campaign.

1. 4. Mon grand-p^re ^c. Henry IV was a Huguenot himself, and tlierefore showed them favour, e. g. in the edict of Nantes, even after his own conversion to Romanism. His modération kept them quiet, and thus relieved him from fear of them. Louis XIII was at war with them several times, and had good reason to fear them, especially in 1627, when they were aided by England.

]. 8. maître des requêtes: the viaîtres des requêtes were lawyers appointed for the purpose of receiving the pétitions addressed to the king, and of reporting on them.