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FRANCE, IN OLD TIMES.
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pains to be seen walking arm in arm with him, in earnest conversation. "Do I play my part well?" he inquired of his mother. "Yes my son, was the reply, but hold out to the end." Those who knew the character of the king, and his hatred of Protestants, feared that under this mask of friendship, some evil was hidden.
"Was Jane, Queen of Navarre, a Huguenot?"
"She was, or a Protestant, for a Huguenot, was only another name given to the Protestants in France, by way of derision. She was truly a pious woman. Her death took place, very suddenly, while in Paris. When she found that her last hour was nigh, she called her