Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — Historic St. Quentin. [ARTICLE]

Historic St. Quentin.

Before the walls of St Quentin, France, in 1557 was fought one of the great battles in the struggle between Henry H of France and Philip H of Spain. The latter, having previously married Mary Tudor, queen of England, had the support of the English when the Spaniards, under Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, invested the town. The Incompetent Constable de Montmorency led a French army ta the relief of Admiral Coligny, who was 1n command of the garrison. The administered a crushing defeat to Montmorency, but the besieged forces, inspired by the intrepid Coligny, held the town for 17 (jays after the rout of their “deliverers.” This was the same Cpligny who 15 years later was one of the first victims of the massacre of St. Bartholomew. His body was thrown from his.own window and fell in the courtyard at the feet of the duke of Guise, one of the instigators of the great slaughter of the Huguenots.. * r .