A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3

CHAPTER XXIII.THE HUNDRED YEARS WARCHARLES VI. AND THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY CHAPTER XXIV.THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR.CHARLES VII. AND JOAN OF ARC (1422-1461) CHAPTER XXV.LOUIS XI. (1461-1483.) CHAPTER XXVI.THE WARS OF ITALY. CHARLES VIII. (1483-1498.) CHAPTER XXVII.THE WARS IN ITALY.LOUIS XII. (1498-1515.) Sully, in his Memoirs, characterizes the reign of Charles VI. as that reign so pregnant of sinister events, the grave of good laws and good morals in France. There is no exaggeration in these words; the sixteenth century with its St. Bartholomew and The League, the eighteenth with its reign of terror, and the nineteenth with its Commune of Paris, contain scarcely any events so sinister as those of which France was, in the reign of Charles VI., from 1380 to 1422, the theatre and the victim. Scarcely was Charles V. laid on his bier when it was seen what a loss he was and would be to his kingdom. Discord arose in the kings own family. In order to shorten the ever critical period of minority, Charles V. had fixed the kings majority at the age of fourteen. His son, Charles VI., was not yet twelve, and so had two years to remain under the guardianship of his four uncles, the Dukes of Anjou, Berry, Burgundy, and Bourbon; but the last being only a maternal uncle and a less puissant prince than his paternal uncles, it was between the other three that strife began for temporary possession of the kingly power. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 11953
Author: Guizot, François
Release Date: Apr 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Neuville, Alphonse Marie de, 1835-1885
Translator: Black, Robert, 1830?-1915