A History of France, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1892 - France |
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Anjou Aquitaine Aquitanians archbishop army attacked Austrasia barons battle became bishops Boniface Brittany brother Burgundians Burgundy Caesar called century Charles Charles the Bald chief chivalry Christendom Christians Church clergy Count Count of Flanders Court crown Crusade death died Duke Duke of Burgundy Edward Emperor Empire England English Europe fell feudal Flanders France Frankish Frankish Empire Franks French King Froissart Gallic Gallo-Romans Gaul gave German Guienne hands head held Henry Histoire Hlodowig Hlothar Hludwig Holy Hugh Hugh Capet Italy Jeanne Jerusalem John King's kingdom knights land Latin Loire lords Louis monarchy monks Navarre Neustria nobles Norman Normandy Northern Orleans Papacy Papal Paris passed peace perished Philip Augustus Pippin Poitiers Pope princes Queen race reign Rheims Rhine Robert Roman Rome Rouen royal seemed side South strong struggle Suger throne took Toulouse town vassals William of Nangis
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Page 253 - Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 249 - There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits which have from time to time moved over the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honour. It was the principal business of chivalry to animate and cherish the last of these three.
Page 136 - Alexander, he seemed born for universal innovation : in a life restlessly active, we see him reforming the coinage, and establishing the legal divisions of money ; gathering about him the learned of every country ; founding schools, and collecting libraries ; interfering, but with the tone of a king, in religious controversies; aiming, though prematurely, at the formation of a naval force ; attempting, for the sake of commerce, the magnificent enterprize of uniting the Rhine and Danube (2) ; and...
Page 541 - And alle thing there prospered for you til the tyme of the Siege of Orleans taken in hand, God knoweth by what advis.
Page 133 - This King, who showed himself so great in extending his empire and subduing foreign nations, and was constantly occupied with plans to that end, undertook also very many works calculated to adorn and benefit his kingdom, and brought several of them to completion. Among these, the most deserving...
Page 531 - Friesland, together with some claims on Brabant. So formidable a neighbour at once roused the ill-will of the Lord of Burgundy and Flanders. A private war broke out between them, which augured ill for the harmony between English and Burgundians. Yet the state of France was fearful. From King to peasant all were alike miserable. The open land from the Loire to the Somme was a desert overgrown with wood and thickets ; wolves fought over the corpses in the burial-grounds of Paris ; towns were distracted...
Page 120 - Frankish dress — a linen shirt and drawers next his skin1; above these a tunic with a silken hem, and breeches of the same : then he wrapped his knees and legs down to the ankles with strips of linen ; he wore boots on his feet ; his shoulders and breast he guarded in winter with an overcoat of fur (of ermine or otter) ; over that a Frankish cloak, and, slung across him by a gold or silver belt, a scabbarded sword. . . . Foreign dress, how rich soever it might be, he hated. He never wore it, save...
Page 58 - ... modern civilisation, — a civilisation free in the main from the curse of slavery, — has begun to work out its principles. It is now time to trace out the introduction of this third element, — the Frank. CHAPTER VII. IV. The German Settlements in Gaul down to Clovis. AD 406-476. ' WHERE the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Page 541 - God as it seemeth, a great strook upon your peuple that was assembled there in grete nombre, caused in grete partie, as y trowe, of lakke of sadde beleve, and of unlevefulle doubte, that thei hadde of a disciple and lyme of the Feende, called the Pucelle, that used fals enchantments and