Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 05

The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism

This header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need to understand what they may and may not do with the etext. To encourage this, we have moved most of the information to the end, rather than having it all here at the beginning. The "legal small print" and other information about this book may now be found at the end of this file. Please read this important information, as it gives you specific rights and tells you about restrictions in how the file may be used. What would history be without the picturesque annals of the Gallic race? This is a question which the serious student may well ask himself as he works his way through the chronicles of a dozen centuries. From the age of Charlemagne to the last of the Bonapartes is a long stride down the ages; but there was never a time in all these years when men might make reckonings in the arithmetic of European politics without taking into account the prestige, the power, and even the primacy of France. There were times without number when France among her neighbours made herself hated with an undying hate; there were times, again, when she rallied them to her side in friendship and admiration. There were epochs in which her hegemony passed unquestioned among men of other lands, and there were times when a sudden shift in fortune seemed to lay the nation prostrate, with none so poor to do her reverence. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 4655
Author: Munro, William Bennett
Release Date: Nov 1, 2003
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publication Date: 1915
Publisher Country: Toronto

Contributors

Editor: Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953 , Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948