Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO, IN JUSTIFICATION OF THE TEXT. No. 1.--VoL I. pp. 26-28. We have given a brief analysis of the Edict of Nantes. We deem it proper to give in this place the entire text, with its warrant and secret articles, which, as a whole, have not been published in any history of France. Edict of Nantes, with its warrant, and teeret articlet. 1. Edict.--Hexrt, Ac. Among the infinite graces it has pleased God to bestow on us, this is the moat signal and remarkable, that he has given us virtue and strength to withstand the frightful troubles, confusions and disorders which attended our accession to the throne, the country being torn into parties and factions, the least numerous of which was as it were the most legitimate; and for having so strengthened us against this difficulty, that we have at length surmounted it, and reached a harbor of safety and repose for the State. To whom alone be all the glory, and to us the honor and obligation, that he has made use of our labor to accomplish this good work, which has been visible to all, if we have performed what was not only of our duty and ability, but something more beside, which might not have been at any other time proper to the diguity we hold, which we have no fear of exposing here, seeing that we have so freely exposed our own life. And in this remarkable concurrence of So great and perilous affairs, it not being in our power to settle every thing at one and the same time, it has been necessary for us to follow this order. namely, to undertake first those things which could be settled only by force, and the rather to remit and lay aside till some other time such as could and should be settled by reason and justice: such as the different views of onr good subjects, and...
