Excerpt from The Wars of the Huguenots<br><br>There were, however, more special reasons why in the great religious movement of the time France walked at first with a slow and lingering footstep. In other countries the Reformation found from the beginning some ecclesiastical or political support to lay its hand upon, by which to help itself forward. None such was found in France. The Church was not groaning. There under the same bondage that elsewhere Oppressed her; she had already fought for and so far achieved her independence, that no foreign ecclesiastics were intruded into her highest Offices, nor were her revenues liable to be diverted at the will of the Pepe into Italian chan nels. Philip the Fair had two centuries before emancipated the monarchy from the hierarchical.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.