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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. Consideratio7is on the History of France. Men are seldom familiar with any history but that of their own time; and in reading the declamations so frequent in our days, one would be led to think that the eight centuries of monarchical government which preceded the Revolution, had been ages of tranquillity; and that the French nation had reposed during that time on a bed of roses. We forget the burning of the Knights Templars, under Philip-Ie-Bel; the victories of the English, under the kings of the Valois race; the civil war of La Jacquerie; the assassination of the Duke of Orleans, and of the Duke of Bur Andy; the treacherous cruelty of Louis XL; the condemnation or the French Protestants to frightful punishments, under Francis L, at the very time, too, when he was in alliance wi th their brethren in Germany; the horrors of the league, all surpassed by the massacre of St. Bartholomew; the conspiracies against Henry IV. and his assassination, that frightful act of the league; the scaffolds raised by the arbitrary Richelieu; the military executions, long remembered under the name of dragonnades; the repeal of the edict of Nantes; the expulsion of the Protestants, and the war of the Cevennes, under Louis XIV.; and, finally, the less terrific, but not less important struggles of the parliaments, under Louis XV. Troubles without end have arisen in France to obtain what was considered to be liberty, at different periods, whether feu dal, religious, or representative; and, if we except the reigns of those kings, who, like Francis I. and, above all, Louis XIV., possessed the dangerous art of occupying the nation by war, we shall not find, in the space of eight centuries, an interval of twenty-five years without a conflict of nobles against the soverei...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154213423
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154213420
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr


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