Outlines of the History of France from the Earliest Times to the Outbreak of the Revolution1882 - 613 páginas |
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Outlines of the History of France from the Earliest Times to the Outbreak of ... François Guizot Vista de fragmentos - 1979 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 564 - Monsieur, tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the People, and that nothing but the force of bayonets...
Página 79 - Most Holy Land, I commend thee to the care of the Almighty ; and may He grant me long life enough to return hither and deliver thee from the yoke of the infidels ! " A century had not yet rolled by since the triumph of the first crusaders, and the dominion they had acquired by conquest in the Holy Land had become, even in the eyes of their most valiant and most powerful successors, an impossibility. Nevertheless, repeated efforts and glory and even victories were not then, and were not to be still...
Página 221 - States at this period, and the different shares of influence they exercised on the fate of the French expedition. Six principal States, Piedmont, the kingdom of the dukes of Savoy; the duchy of Milan; the republic of Venice; the republic of Florence; Rome and the pope; and the kingdom of Naples, co-existed in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century. In August, 1494, when Charles VIII. started from Lyons on his Italian expedition, Piedmont was governed by Blanche Montferrrat, widow of Charles the...
Página 53 - with a large army of all nations," it was to purchase the retreat of the Northmen at the cost of a heavy ransom, and by allowing them to go and winter in Burgundy, " whereof the inhabitants obeyed not the emperor.
Página 56 - Worms, he, yielding to his wife's entreaties and doubtless also to his own yearnings towards his youngest son, set at naught the solemn act whereby, in 817, he had shared his dominions amongst his three elder sons; and took away from two of them, in Burgundy and Allemannia, some of the territories he had assigned to them, and gave them to the boy Charles for his share. Lothaire, Pepin, and Louis thereupon revolted. Court rivalries were added to family differences. The emperor had summoned to his...
Página 425 - Port-Royal, if she had let them see into the bottom of her heart as she showed it to her daughter. Pascal used to say, " There are but three sorts of persons : those who serve God, having found Him ; those who employ themselves in seeking Him, not having found Him ; and those who live without seeking Him or having found Him. The first are reasonable and happy ; the last are mad and miserable ; the intermediate are miserable and reasonable.
Página 45 - The disaster of Roncesvalles and the heroism of the warriors who perished there became, in France, the object of popular sympathy and the favorite topic for the exercise of the popular fancy. The Song of Roland, a real Homeric poem in its great beauty, and yet rude and simple as became its national character, bears witness to the prolonged importance attained in Europe by this incident in the history of Charlemagne.
Página 122 - Philip the Bold died, at Perpignan, the 5th of October, 1285, on his return from his expedition in Aragon, the sovereignty in southern France, as far as the frontiers of Spain, had been won for the kingship of France. A Flemish chronicler, a monk at Egmont, describes the character of Philip the Bold's successor in the following words : "A certain king of France, also named Philip, eaten up by the fever of avarice and cupidity." And that was not the only fever inherent in Philip IV., called the Handsome;...
Página 148 - I would not be all alone against you all. Go, Walter, to them of Calais, and say to the governor that the greatest grace they can find in my sight is that six of the most notable burghers come forth from their town bare-headed, bare-footed, with ropes round their necks and with the keys of the town and castle in their hands. With them I will do according to my will, and the rest I will receive to mercy.
Página 76 - The enthusiasm was general and contagious, as the first shout of the crowd had been ; and a pious prelate, Adhemar, bishop of Puy, was. the first to receive the cross from the pope's hands. It was of red cloth or silk, sewn upon the right shoulder of the coat or cloak, or fastened on the front of the helmet. The crowd dispersed to assume it and spread it. Religious enthusiasm was not the only, but the first and the determining motive of the crusade. It is to...