A Tale of the Huguenot Wars (1570-72)

Some of the bitterest persecutions of the Counter-reformation were waged against the Reformed Protestants of France by the Roman Catholic Guise family and monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries. Thousands of French Calvinists, known as Huguenots, were killed and thousands more fled to other European countries and the Americas. They made far-reaching cultural, political, and economic contributions wherever they went, but they paid a heavy price for their faithfulness to God. On August 24, 1572, the Parisian mobs, following the example of Catherine de Medici and the Guises who instigated the murder of the great Protestant Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, massacred more than 2,000 Protestant men, women, and children-the gutters overflowing with their blood. The massacre triggered persecutions across France and the volunteer soldiers of the Reformed Church were again forced to defend themselves against the onslaughts of the Catholic armies.

In this Henty tale, 16-year-old Phillip Fletcher, of English and French heritage, joins the forces of Admiral Coligny and Henry of Navarre to fight for religious freedom in France in the 1570s. He leads a squad of veteran soldiers against Catholic forces behind the battle lines, in sieges of castles and towns, and in defense of family estates. Ever fearless, Phillip uses his consummate skills as a swordsman and marksman in many desperate engagements, often hand-to-hand. He barely escapes the Paris massacre, rescues a noble lady, and returns to England as a hero, to experience matrimony and to claim his patrimony.

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