NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

The money changers wh0 broke the unity of the church and led France off a cliff once, still possess the power to do so again and most likely will, although this time instead of religion, the bloodletting will be in the name of the universal god of Scientism to which Protestantism has now taken a back seat.

“Michel de l’Hôpital was one of those clever self-made men of obscure origin who played so striking a part in the history of the sixteenth century. His father had been a physician, money-changer and general factotum for Charles of Bourbon. Young Michel, like Thomas Cromwell, had traveled about Europe considerably before he settled down in Paris, and was recommended for the chancellorship by the then incumbent Olivier, just before his death. Maimbourg and other Jesuits asserted that he was of Jewish descent. The Bishop of Metz (Beaucaire) said that his grandfather was a Jew of Avignon, and that Michel himself was “a man somewhat learned, but of no religion, or to speak truly, an atheist” and accused the Chancellor’s father of having betrayed France to Charles V. François du Chesne also gives him the Jew of Avignon for a grandfather. This has been vigorously denied by M. de la Faye de l’Hôpital, a descendant of the Chancellor, and by such Huguenot champions as C. T. Atkinson.9

Jewish historians are not so skeptical on the subject. The finely intelligent and urbane pen of Mr. Joseph Jacobs, tracing the movement for toleration that led to the Edict of Nantes in part to “both Jewish example and indirect influence,” adds this: “It cannot be by chance that the three most prominent voices among the Politiques, who laid down the principles which were to result in the Edict—Michel de l’Hôpital, Jean Bodin and Michel de Montaigne—were all partly of Jewish race.”10

L’Hôpital had a family mixed in religion. Although he attended Mass every day, and received the sacraments, his wife, Marie Morin, was a Protestant, and his daughter and son-in-law were Protestants. He convinced the Queen-Mother—and it is not impossible that he convinced himself—that he had no object but the true welfare of the Catholic Church in a peaceful France. But it cannot be denied that his influence led to the very violence Catherine sought to avoid, and delivered her into the hands of Coligny and the Calvinists. It seemed not a little strange in Spain and at Rome that his love for the Church should be so often expressed in terms almost identical with those employed by men who frankly sought her destruction.”

Philip II: (1527-1598) Volume:
Author(s): William Thomas Walsh
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