"Miserable country miserable King," sighed an illustrious patriot, "whom his own countrymen wish rather to survive, than to die to defend him! Let the name of Huguenot and of Papist be never heard of more.

Let us think only of the counter-league.

Is France to be saved by opening all its gates to Spain?
Is France to be turned out of France, to make a lodging for the Lorrainer and the Spaniard ?" Pregnant questions, which could not yet be answered, for the end was not yet.

France was to become still more and more a wilderness.

And well did that same brave and thoughtful lover, of his: country declare, that he who should suddenly awake from a sleep of twenty-five years, and revisit that once beautiful land, would deem himself transplanted to a barbarous island of cannibals .-- [Duplessis Mornay, 'Mem.' iv.