Guises

On the one hand, pamphleteers and genealogists, with an eye to the future, wrote countless brochures to prove that the Guises were the real descendants of Charlemagne, and that, like Pepin the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The old castle of the Guises was a mere tumbledown barrack at the time I speak of.

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859

Disorder continued for several days in the surrounding country; but the surprise attempted against the Guises was a failure, and the important result of the riot of Amboise (_tumulte d'Amboise_), as it was called, was an ordinance of Francis II., who, on the 17th of March,

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830

That is what I did at the siege of Calais when I put my foot on the face of the Duc de Guise, -- I ran the risk of being strangled by his friends and his servants; but to-day I am surgeon to the king; moreover I am of the Reformed religion; and yet the Guises are my friends.

Catherine De Medici Honor�� de Balzac 1824

As Voltaire wrote, in the detestable times of Charles IX. and Henry III. it was only a question whether the people should be the slaves of the Guises, while as for the last war, it deserved only hisses and contempt; for what was de Retz but a rebel without

Voltaire 2007

The danger is not over yet, though Lord Howard has had news from Newhaven that the Guises will not stir against

Westward Ho! 2007

They would be both forgotten, and the Guises would be the heroes of the state and religion.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The whole line of the Guises were bold, rash, factious; compounded of the most insolent pride, and the most seductive politeness.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Paris under Henry IV. after the war of the Guises, people took great pride in being atheists; having passed from the excess of cruelty to that of pleasure, and corrupted their minds successively by war and by voluptuousness, they reasoned very indifferently.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

As for Monsieur le Comte de la Grinche, he was not bound for names; and, having the whole peerage to choose from, brought a host of Montmorencies, Créquis, De la Tours, and Guises at his back.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006