Heart of Europe

Heart of Europe

BY RALPH ADAMS CRAM, Litt.D., LL.D. F.A.I.A., A.N.A., F.R.G.S. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1916 {iv} Copyright, 1915, by CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS Published October, 1915 {v} TO E. S. C. WHO SOME DAY MAY KNOW THE HEART OF EUROPE AND TO WHOM THIS BOOK MAY BE A DIM RECALLING OF OLD, UNHAPPY, FAR-OFF THINGS AND BATTLES LONG AGO WHITEHALL 29 AUGUST, 1915 The author wishes to express his great sense of personal obligation to Miss Gertrude Schirmer and Mr. Emil P. Albrecht for their kindness in furnishing illustrations that otherwise could not have been obtained. BETWEEN the Seine and the Rhine lay once a beautiful land wherein more history was made, and recorded in old monuments full of grace and grandeur and fancy, than in almost any other region of the world. The old names were best, for each aroused memory and begot strange dreams: Flanders, Brabant, the Palatinate; Picardy, Valois, Champagne, Franche-Comt; Artois, Burgundy, and Bar. And the town names ring with the same sonorous melody, evoking the ghosts of a great and indelible past: Bruges, Ghent, Louvain, and Lige; Aix-la-Chapelle, Coblentz, and Trves; Ypres and Lille, Tournai and Fontenay, Arras and Malplaquet; Laon, Nancy, Verdun, and Varennes; Amiens, Soissons, and Reims. Csar, Charlemagne, St. Louis, Napoleon, with proconsuls, paladins, crusaders, and marshals unnumbered; kings, prince-bishops, monks, knights, and aureoled saints take{2} form and shape again at the clang of the splendid names. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 56858
Author: Cram, Ralph Adams
Release Date: Mar 27, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English