Since 1562 French Catholics and Protestant Hugenots had been preventing a sequence of bloody wars, known as “The French Wars of Faith.”
In 1589, Henry IV had turned the authorized inheritor to the French throne, after King Henry III was assassinated by a fanatical Catholic monk.
Henry IV was a Huguenot. And, though many of the nation accepted him as King, many Catholics, particularly these within the important metropolis of Paris, refused to acknowledge his authority
Henry solved the political and spiritual deadlock by changing to Catholicism and by this act was allowed to enter Pairs. Legend has it that he informed a pal “Paris vaut une messe.” (“Paris is value a mass.”)
I used to be taking notes in faculty on this occasion. I wrote down, “Paris is value an ass.” I pal of mine noticed my notes and laughed and laughed and laughed. For I had modified the story’s that means considerably.
However I stand by what I had truthfully heard, Paris actually is value an ass.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comedian Chef, Ph.D.
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