Excerpt from The White Plumes of Navarre a Romance of the Wars of Religion Only in the houses in which were lodged the great Huguenot gentlemen, come to the City for the marriage Of the King's sister Marguerite to the King Of Navarre, there were darkness and Silence. None had warned them - Or, at least, they had taken no warning. If any suspected, the word Of a King, his sworn oaths and multitudinous safe-conducts, lulled them back again into security. In one chamber, high above the courtyard, a light burned faint and steady. It was that beside the bed of the great Admiral - Coligny. He had been treacherously wounded by the arquebuse Of one of the guard Of the King's brother - Monsieur de France, Henry Duke Of Anjou, afterwards to be known to history as Henry III., the favourite son of Catherine de Medici, the cunningest. 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.