The Protestants had thus obtained in France many edicts by which the peace of the kingdom had been secured.

He could not himself be denounced as a heretic, for he had always held himself ready to receive instruction, and to be set right where he had erred.

To call him "relapsed" was an outrage.

Were it true, he were indeed unworthy of the crown, but the world knew that his change at the Massacre of St.
Bartholomew had been made under duresse, and that he had returned to the reformed faith when he had recovered his liberty.

Religious toleration had been the object of his life.