Eugène Sue
The Pocket Bible; or, Christian the Printer: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066237783
Table of Contents
CHAPTER III. THE SALE OF INDULGENCES.
CHAPTER IV. THE "TEST OF THE LUTHERANS."
CHAPTER VII. BROTHER ST. ERNEST-MARTYR.
CHAPTER X. LOYOLA AND HIS DISCIPLES.
CHAPTER XI. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER XII. HERVE'S DEMENTIA.
CHAPTER XIII. CALVINISTS IN COUNCIL.
CHAPTER XV. DIARY OF ST. ERNEST-MARTYR.
CHAPTER XVI. THE TAVERN OF THE BLACK GRAPE.
CHAPTER XVII. THE COTTAGE OF ROBERT ESTIENNE.
CHAPTER XVIII. FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE.
CHAPTER XIX. ON THE ROAD TO PARIS.
CHAPTER I. THE QUEEN'S "FLYING SQUADRON."
CHAPTER III. THE AVENGERS OF ISRAEL.
CHAPTER IV. GASPARD OF COLIGNY.
CHAPTER VI. THE BATTLE OF ROCHE-LA-BELLE.
CHAPTER VII. "CONTRE-UN." [74]
CHAPTER VIII. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S NIGHT.
CHAPTER IX. THE SIEGE OF LA ROCHELLE.
CHAPTER X. THE LAMBKINS' DANCE.
CHAPTER XI. CAPTURE OF CORNELIA.
CHAPTER XII. THE DUKE OF ANJOU.
CHAPTER XIII. THE BILL IS PAID.
PART I
THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
INTRODUCTION.
What great changes, sons of Joel, have taken place in Paris since the time when our ancestor Eidiol the Parisian skipper lived in this city, in the Ninth Century, at the time of the Northman invasion! How many changes even since 1350, when our ancestor Jocelyn the Champion fell wounded beside Etienne Marcel, who was assassinated by John Maillart and the royalists!
The population of this great city now, in the year 1534, runs up to about four hundred thousand souls; daily new houses rise in the suburbs and outside the city walls, whose boundaries have become too narrow, although they enclose from twelve to thirteen thousand houses. But now, the same as in the past, Paris remains divided into four towns, so to speak, by two thoroughfares that cross each other at right angles. St. Martin, prolonged by St. James Street, traverses the city from east to west; St. Honoré, prolonged by St. Antoine Street, traverses it from north to south. The Louvre is the quarter of the people of the court; the quarter of the Bastille, of the Arsenal, filled with arms, and of the Temple is that of the people whose profession is war; the quarter of the University is that of the men of letters; finally the quarter of Notre Dame and St. Germain, where lie the convents of the Cordeliers, of the Chartreux, of the Jacobins, of the Augustinians, of the Dominicans and of many other hives of monks and nuns besides the monasteries that are scattered throughout the city, is that of the men of the Church. The merchants, as a general