uenot ranks who,
remembering past injuries received at the hands of the troops of the Pope,
were not unwilling to turn their arms in this direction. But their leader
was no Huguenot. M. de Glandage, a gentleman of Dauphiny, was a soldier of
fortune, and would doubtless have fought with as little reluctance against
the Protestants as for them, had it been to his advantage to enlist under
the papal standard. As it was otherwise, he made himself master of the
city of Orange, with the assistance of a party of citizens, and expelled
Berchon, who, in the name of William the Silent, had strictly abstained
from acts of hostility against the neighboring pontifical towns. Not so
with the new governor of Orange. The city became the starting-point for a
continuous series of incursions. It was not war, but open rapine. The very
traders were plundered of their wares when they fell into his hands. One
might have fancied that a mediaeval robber-baron had reappeared on the
banks of the Rhone. It was true that Glandage, making a virtue of
bluntness, was wont to say that "there was nothing Huguenot about him but
the point of his sword." None the less did his violent acts bring
discredit upon the Huguenots.[1362]

[Sidenote: Montbrun's exploits in Dauphiny.]

Although war had not yet been formally resumed, there were parts of France
in which it already raged, or rather where peace had never been restored.
This was the case in particular on both banks of the Rhone, in Dauphiny
and in Vivarez and the adjoining districts. So rapid had been the
movements of the veteran Huguenot chief Montbrun, and so successful every
blow he struck, that terror spread far and wide. Important towns fell into
his hands; a rich abbey but a few miles from Grenoble was plundered, and
the silent monks of St. Bruno, in the secluded retreat of the Grande
Chartreuse--the mother house of their order--were glad to summon troops to
defend their rich fields from a similar fate.[1363] From Lyons to Avignon
the Huguenots were stronger than the king's forces.[1364]

[Sidenote: La Rochelle resumes arms. Beginning of the fifth religious
war.]

But the time for hollow truce and a desultory and irregular warfare was
rapidly passing away. It was but little more than a month after the
beginning of the new year before the conflagration again burst forth. The
Protestants of all parts of the kingdom were at length of one mind; there
was no room for doubt that any hopes offered them