service of thanksgiving.  The shock of the event and the long weeks of anxiety were however too heavy a strain upon his wife, Charlotte de Bourbon, who had recently given birth to their sixth daughter.  Her death, on May 5, was deeply grieved by the prince, for Charlotte had been a most devoted helpmeet and adviser to him throughout the anxious years of their married life.  During the whole of the summer and autumn William remained at Antwerp, patiently trying to smooth away the difficulties caused by the dislike and suspicion felt by the Netherlanders for the man whom they were asked to recognise as their sovereign.  It was an arduous task, but William, at the cost of his own popularity, succeeded in getting the duke acknowledged in July as Lord of Friesland and Duke of Gelderland, and in August Anjou was solemnly installed at Bruges, as Count of Flanders.  Meanwhile he was planning, with the help of the large French force which Anjou had undertaken to bring into the Netherlands, to take the offensive against Parma.  The truth is that he and Anjou were really playing at cross-purposes.  Orange wished Anjou to be the roi-faineant of a United Netherland state of which he himself should be the real ruler, but Anjou had no intention of being treated as a second Matthias.  He secretly determined to make himself master of Antwerp by a sudden attack and, this achieved, to proceed to seize by force of arms some of the other principal cities and to make himself sovereign in reality as well as in name.  He resented his dependence upon Orange and was resolved to rid himself of it.  With shameless treachery in the early morning of January 17, 1583, he paid a visit to the prince in Antwerp, and, with the object of gaining possession of his person, tried to persuade him to attend a review of the French regiments who were encamped outside the town.  The suspicions of William had however been aroused, and he pleaded some excuse for declining the invitation.  At midday some thousands of Anjou’s troops rushed into the city at the dinner-hour with loud cries of “Ville gagnee!  Tue!  Tue!” But the citizens flew to arms; barricades were erected; and finally the French were driven out with heavy loss, leaving some 1500 prisoners in the hands of the town-guard.  Many French nobles perished, and the “French Fury,” as it was called, was an ignominious and ghastly failure.  Indignation was wide and deep throughout the provinces; and William’s efforts to calm the excitement and patch up some fresh agreement with the false Valois, though for the moment partially successful, only added to his own growing unpopularity.