Excerpt from Sidelights Two hundred and eighty-one years before the Siege of Paris in 1870, an army under the command of the Bearnais, as Henry IV. Was contemptuously called by the League, appeared at its gates. Shortly before that he had been victorious at Arques1 and at Ivry,2 where his white-crested helmet was seen ever in the forefront of battle. His small army of foot and 3000 horse was confronted at Paris, whither he had gone, as he laughingly said, to win his mistress, by troops of the League. The last holiday in Paris had been in celebration of the death of Henry III. Who fell by the hand of a monk, on the anniversary of the same day and hour, and in the same hall in which, eighteen years before, the Act had been signed for the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.