Bonjour pouvez vous me résumer ce texte en français : Four hundred years ago the King of England was called James, he was a protestant.
King James said that Catholics had to stop saying their own prayers in their own
churches. If they did not stop they had to pay a fine. All the Catholics were very
angry with the King. Some of them made a plan to get rid of him. The man who
thought up this plan was called Robert Catesby. He found some friends to help him.
The King and his most important men met in the Houses of Parliament in London.
Robert Catesby thought they could get rid of the King if they blew up the Houses of
Parliament. He hoped that a new King would be kinder to the Catholics. First they
needed somebody who knew about gunpowder. Guy Fawkes was a soldier and he
knew a lot about gunpowder. He was a Catholic and he agreed to help them. The
plotters rented a house that had a cellar underneath the Houses of Parliament. They
secretly got some barrels of gunpowder and put them in the cellar. The plotters found
out the day when the King was next going to visit Parliament.
It was on November the 5th. That day Guy Fawkes set off to the house where the
gunpowder was hidden to light the fuse. When he arrived at the house there were
soldiers waiting for him. He had been betrayed. The soldiers captured all the plotters.
They were hanged. King James was very frightened and he wanted to make sure
that no one forgot about his narrow escape. He said everyone should light a bonfire
on November 5th and say special prayers so they would not forget the gunpowder
plot. We still remember Guy Fawkes in this way. Each year we light bonfires and
burn a pretend Guy and we set off fireworks to remind us of the plot to kill King
James :