A Popular History of France from the Earliest Time
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Produced by David Widger
HISTORY OF FRANCE
BY M. GUIZOT
VOLUME II.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
XVII. THE CRUSADES, THEIR DECLINE AND END. 9
XVIII. THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE 65
XIX. THE COMMUNES AND THE THIRD ESTATE 205
XX. THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR. PHILIP VI. AND JOHN II. 249
XXI. THE STATES-GENERAL OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 328
XXII. THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR. CHARLES V. 358
LIST OF STEEL ENGRAVINGS.
BRIDGE OF TOULOUSE FRONTISPIECE.
PREACHING THE SECOND CRUSADE 13
ST. LOUIS ADMINISTERING JUSTICE 46
ST. LOUIS MEDIATING BETWEEN HENRY III. AND HIS BARONS 136
THE SICILIAN VESPERS 156
THE TOWN AND FORTRESS OF LILLE 164
LIST OF WOOD-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS.
Richard's Farewell to the Holy Land 10
Defeat of the Turks 16
The Christians of the Holy City defiling before Saladin. 28
Richard Coeur de Lion having the Saracens beheaded. . 37
Sire de Joinville 55
The Death of St. Louis 64
Thomas de Marie made Prisoner 69
Louis the Fat on an Expedition 69
The Battle of Bouvines 81
Death of De Montfort 104
De la Marche's parting Insult 126
"It is rather hard Bread." 146
The Battle of Courtrai 167
Colonna striking the Pope 185
The Hanging of Marigny 200
The Peasants resolved to Live according to their own Inclinations and their own Laws. . . . 209
Insurrection in favor of the Commune at Cambrai 214
Burghers of Laon 220
View of the Town of Laon 223
Bishop Gaudri dragged from the Cask 224
The Cathedral of Laon 233
Homage of Edward III. to Philip VI. 250
Van Artevelde at his Door 264
"See! See!" she cried 283
Statue of James Van Artevelde 296
Queen Philippa at the Feet of the King 314
John II., called the Good 318
"Father, ware right! Father, ware left!" 326
King John taken Prisoner 326
Arrest of the Dauphin's Councillors 334
Charles the Bad, King of Navarre 335
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Popular History of France from the Earliest Time
- 2: Wearing the cross before Tunis
- 3: On the subject of the election of the Archbishop of Bourges
- 4: Bernard so long as you defend His heritage
- 5: At the same time pointing to Suger and the Count de Nevers
- 6: Forty days' march from Antioch
- 7: He set out from Antioch secretly
- 8: For the future government of Damascus
- 9: Bernard accepted their reproaches in a pious spirit If
- 10: Little more than a year after Suger
- 11: Noureddin and Saladin Nour Eddyn and Sala Eddyn
- 12: Saladin saluted her respectfully
- 13: Whilst it has remained familiar to the Mussulman
- 14: Frederick Barbarossa was sixty seven
- 15: They passed at Messina all the autumn of 1190
- 16: Saladin manoeuvred incessantly for its relief
- 17: A contemporary English chronicler
- 18: Mussulman prisoners remaining in his hands
- 19: Leaving Jerusalem in possession of the Mussulmans
- 20: But to return to the real crusades
- 21: But he desired that Amaury de Montfort
- 22: The sixth crusade was the personal achievement of St
- 23: But scarcely had the crusaders formed a junction in Cyprus
- 24: And he rushed forward into Mansourah
- 25: He was told that Gaugelme had expired
- 26: Said the Mussulman negotiators
- 27: They had just slain the Sultan Malek Moaddam
- 28: Had the courage to support the opinion of Joinville
- 29: And leaving the Christians of Syria
- 30: The crusade was openly preached
- 31: But Joinville refused downright
- 32: After some fights between the Tunisians and the crusaders
- 33: Two facts strike us in the history of the kingship in France
- 34: Being separated by the little River Epte from Norman Vexin
- 35: Destroyed the castle of Puiset
- 36: He had war in Normandy with Henry I
- 37: Was crowned at Poitiers as Duke of Aquitaine
- 38: And for the kingship in France
- 39: Richard Coeur de Lion and John Lackland
- 40: And in that capacity vassal of Philip Augustus
- 41: They had at their head the Emperor Otho IV
- 42: Philip had halted near the bridge of Bouvines
- 43: Then danger threatened the Emperor Otho in his turn
- 44: After the conquest of the Gauls by the Franks
- 45: Hereupon rich and powerful laymen
- 46: Abbess for eleven years past of the Paraclete
- 47: Feudal civilization of Germanic France
- 48: Bernard preached with great success in Toulouse itself
- 49: The Bishop of Osma sent away his retinue to Spain
- 50: And to the papacy as to freedom
- 51: At the siege of the castle of Lavaur
- 52: Viscount of Beziers and Carcassonne
- 53: To his legates in Languedoc and to Simon de Montfort
- 54: The monk Peter of Vaulx Cernay
- 55: But Amaury de Montfort was losing ground every day
- 56: When Simon de Montfort was decisively victorious
- 57: He married Princess Ingeburga of Denmark
- 58: Ingeburga resumed her title and rights as queen
- 59: Sent for the burghers and provost of the city
- 60: At the request of Philip Augustus
- 61: To resume the crusade against the Albigensians
- 62: The husband of Blanche of Castille
- 63: Went to the aid of Count Theobald
- 64: And took the road to Montlhery
- 65: The harshness of Queen Blanche towards Queen Marguerite
- 66: The rights of suzerainty in the countships of Chartres
- 67: To fire the lodging appointed for him by Count Alphonso
- 68: Was causing violent agitation in Christendom
- 69: And Tartars were all pressing it equally hard
- 70: To gain conquests over their neighbors and their vassals
- 71: Inasmuch as he was not my liegeman
- 72: And followed up by honest neutrality ineffectual arbitration
- 73: To despatch his people's business
- 74: If the authenticity of the Pragmatic Sanction
- 75: The provostship ceased to be a purchasable office
- 76: And from the children to the servitors of St
- 77: In consideration of his beneficence
- 78: Joinville defended himself vigorously
- 79: Even the crusader was extinct in St
- 80: Formally condemns heretics to death
- 81: Without expressly giving to Charlemagne the title of saint
- 82: After having passed several months before Tunis
- 83: Peter de la Brosse was one of the first examples
- 84: The conquests of the countries of Wales and Scotland
- 85: And thereby lost Aquitaine for a season
- 86: Under the name of the Flemish hanse of London
- 87: Guy de Dampierre seized the person of the Count of Holland
- 88: But the people of Bruges remained dumb
- 89: The two armies met near Courtrai
- 90: Fetched Guy de Dampierre from the tower of the Louvre
- 91: Were obliged to shut themselves up in Lille
- 92: Benedetto Gaetani said to that prince
- 93: Philip the Handsome and Boniface VIII
- 94: A year after the bull Clericis laicos
- 95: Everything seemed at that time to smile on Boniface
- 96: As Bernard de Saisset belonged
- 97: In the following terms Boniface
- 98: Who giveth himself out for sovereign pontiff
- 99: The form of accusation against Boniface
- 100: William of Nogaret undertook it
- 101: And to their associates at Anagni
- 102: Bertrand de Goth was elected pope
- 103: The Templars and the Hospitallers
- 104: The Templars were pronounced innocent
- 105: Made aloud a similar disavowal
- 106: He gave orders for his removal to Fontainebleau
- 107: As delegated from the kingship
- 108: It was Marigny who had the administration of everything
- 109: On the public gallows at Paris
- 110: Grandson of Philip the Bold through Charles of Valois
- 111: In the course of government anterior to 1789
- 112: Less than a century after William of Jumiege
- 113: Quite distinct from feudal oppression
- 114: Which regulated its interior regimen in financial
- 115: In 1098 he was elected Bishop of Noyon
- 116: Baudri requested the hing of France
- 117: He met at Langres Pope Pascal II
- 118: As the town of Laon was not slow to perceive
- 119: He left Laon the next morning at daybreak
- 120: Rushed into the episcopal palace
- 121: The body of Gaudri was eventually recognized by this mark
- 122: The burghers of Laon themselves
- 123: Sixteen years after the murder of Bishop Gaudri
- 124: And renewed the war against the burghers of Laon
- 125: Considering that the olden commune of Laon
- 126: And they were not in a condition to resist the kingship
- 127: Picot replied on the 3d of October
- 128: And two of the third estate duos ecclesiasticos
- 129: But at the same time they fortified and elevated burgherdom
- 130: Was under no delusion when in 1302
- 131: Heart breaking travail of modern burgherdom escaping
- 132: But the communes of France are not those which
- 133: These inequalities in the social position of men
- 134: Will the kingship remain French
- 135: As Duke of Aquitaine and peer of France
- 136: The same evening Philip entered Cassel
- 137: In respect of the majority of towns in the countship
- 138: Great grandson of Robert the first Count of Artois
- 139: The Count of Hainault and the Duke of Brabant
- 140: In a Parliament assembled at Northampton
- 141: Member of the appeal court of Caen
- 142: The Fleming Sohier of Courtrai
- 143: And James Van Artevelde was at once invested with it
- 144: Van Artevelde was right in telling the Flemings that
- 145: It was probably at this date that Van Artevelde
- 146: And the Count of Hainault himself made fourteen
- 147: Van Artevelde showed more invention and more boldness
- 148: Near the port of Ecluse or Sluys
- 149: Barbavera sailed off with his galleys
- 150: As from you to Philip of Valois
- 151: That Brittany belonged to Charles of Blois
- 152: There she had the gate of Hennebon castle opened
- 153: He died at the castle of Hennebon
- 154: The fate of Clisson was not yet known there
- 155: Philip confiscated the property of the house of Clisson
- 156: Called Brandebourg or Brembro
- 157: To his own lieutenants in Brittany
- 158: It was likewise in 1343 and at the beginning of 1344
- 159: Artevelde followed them thither
- 160: ' Artevelde answered full softly
- 161: For a month Edward marched his army over Normandy
- 162: Commanded the burgher forces to assemble
- 163: When Sir Godemar saw the mishap
- 164: When they were two leagues from Abbeville
- 165: But not those who were hindermost
- 166: Round the flank of the English archers
- 167: The king had the castellan summoned
- 168: John de Vienne wrote to Philip
- 169: Even John de Vienne shed tears
- 170: Then his brother Peter de Vissant
- 171: Edward was choleric and stern in his choler
- 172: From 1347 to 1349 a frightful disease
- 173: He saw galloping up the Bastard de Mareuil
- 174: A servant of the King of Navarre
- 175: Crossed France by English Aquitaine
- 176: And with John Chandos for comrade
- 177: For Geoffrey de Charny was slain
- 178: Auvergne belonged to Langue d'oil
- 179: To estimate the sufficiency of the impost
- 180: Adjourning until the 30th of November following 1356
- 181: Froissart is in general favorable to kings and princes
- 182: He had likewise convoked at Toulouse those of Langue d'oe
- 183: The dauphin saw the hopelessness of a struggle
- 184: And commissioned by the dauphin himself
- 185: Under the direction of Stephen Marcel
- 186: Between the King of Navarre and the dauphin broke out again
- 187: With the provost at their head
- 188: Marcel reigned dictator in Paris
- 189: The said provost and those who
- 190: The King of Navarre issued forth
- 191: But the continuer of William of Nangis
- 192: Towards eleven o'clock at night Marcel
- 193: Maillart plied his battle axe upon Marcel
- 194: Having sprung into real existence in 1355
- 195: And was accompanied by John Maillart
- 196: And Champagne against the regent of France
- 197: All the highest barons of Gascony
- 198: The churchmen also offered to pay them
- 199: When he was approaching Chartres
- 200: Was concluded the treaty of Bretigny
- 201: After which the Prince of Wales returned to Calais
- 202: And he immediately took possession of the duchy
- 203: And carrying them off to Corbeil for their own use
- 204: With the help of God and Big Ferre
- 205: Hearing that Big Ferre was sick
- 206: Was married to the King of Navarre
- 207: Delisle for the reign of Philip Augustus
- 208: You will there find Sir Bertrand du Guesclin
- 209: Came all compact together to where was the Captal
- 210: And Du Guesclin was made prisoner
- 211: The liberty of Bertrand du Guesclin
- 212: ' Bertrand du Guesclin summoned his herald
- 213: Which Du Guesclin had promised them in his name
- 214: Henry of Transtamare was crowned king
- 215: Himself faithful to Henry of Transtamare
- 216: Du Guesclin undertook to repay
- 217: The Aquitanians too became irritated
- 218: Lastly he summoned to Paris Du Guesclin
- 219: But Du Guesclin pledged it more than once
- 220: The massacre of Limoges caused
- 221: Having fallen sick before Chateauneuf Randon
- 222: 'you know well that Sir Bertrand
- 223: And counsel him loyally in all his affairs
- 224: And the king even had a clock maker by appointment