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[Frontispiece: Gambetta proclaiming the Republic of France. From the painting by Howard Pyle.]
A SHORT HISTORY OF FRANCE
BY
MARY PLATT PARMELE
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1907
Copyright, 1894, By
WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON
Copyright, 1898, 1905, 1906, By
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Early Conditions in Gaul
CHAPTER II.
Julius Caesar's Conquest of Gaul Lutetia
CHAPTER III.
Birth of Christianity Its Dissemination Its Espousal by the Roman Empire Hunnish Invasion
CHAPTER IV.
The Frank in Gaul Clovis Rois-Faineants Charles Martel Mahometanism Pepin Seizes the Crown
CHAPTER V.
Charlemagne Holy Roman Empire Treaty of Verdun
CHAPTER VI.
Invasions by Northmen Normandy Given to Invaders Feudalism Decline of Kingship Ascendancy of the Church Hugh Capet "Truce of God" William the Conqueror
CHAPTER VII.
Social Structure of France Free Cities Their Creation and Enfranchisement The Crusades Philip Augustus War with King John of England Toulouse and the Albigensian War
CHAPTER VIII.
Abelard Louis IX. End of Crusades Philip III. Philip IV. and Papacy Creation of States-General Popes at Avignon Knights Templar Exterminated Change in Succession
CHAPTER IX.
Edward III. Claims French Throne Crecy Poitiers Treaty of Bretigny Charles V. and Bertrand du Guesclin Death of Black Prince Charles VI. A Mad King Feud Between Houses of Orleans and Burgundy Siege of Orleans Joan of Arc Charles VII.
CHAPTER X.
Standing Army Created Louis XI. The Passing of Mediaevalism Charles VIII. Invasion of Italy Louis XII. Francis I. Struggle for Throne of the German Empire The Reformation
CHAPTER XI.
The House of Guise Marie Stuart Francis II. His Death Regency of Catharine de' Medici Her Designs Coligny Henry of Navarre His Marriage Charles IX. St. Bartholomew's Eve Henry III. His Death Henry of Navarre King
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele
- 2: Edict of Nantes Ravaillac Louis XIII
- 3: This branch of the Aryan family is known as the Keltic
- 4: And these were the Galatians the foolish Galatians
- 5: Of making Gaul a Roman province
- 6: And with a mingling of Keltic and Latin
- 7: Unsullied as it came from the hand of its founder
- 8: Druidism was the last stronghold of independent Gallic life
- 9: And surged into Europe under the leadership of Attila
- 10: Whether by treacheries or intrigues or assassination
- 11: When Clovis made gifts of large estates to reward
- 12: Known respectively as Austrasia and Neustria
- 13: Known as the Donation of Pepin
- 14: The treaty of Verdun 843 had roughly separated Italy
- 15: Those Scandinavian freebooters called Northmen
- 16: As in the last days of the Merovingians
- 17: And when to pestilence and despair was added famine
- 18: And prostrated himself before Gregory VII
- 19: But who were by French law then designated as Freemen
- 20: It was in 1095 that Peter the Hermit
- 21: By grace of God Count of Toulouse
- 22: After a brief reign of three years Louis VIII
- 23: Chief among whom was Raymond of Toulouse
- 24: The Crusades had lasted from 1095 to 1270
- 25: And the astonishing period in the history of the papacy
- 26: For the first time since Hugh Capet
- 27: Du Guesclin was to be the sword and he the brain
- 28: His son John seized the regency for himself
- 29: Which represented the Orleanist party
- 30: And she did lead the dauphin to Rheims for his coronation
- 31: Not having access to the Bastille
- 32: The decaying corpse of feudalism must be thrown overboard
- 33: The family of Anjou having recently become extinct
- 34: A Charlemagne and a Lorenzo de' Medici in one
- 35: Of an ordinance called the Pragmatic Sanction
- 36: In 1547 Francis and Henry VIII
- 37: Of which Admiral Coligny was the head
- 38: And there developed a Bourbon party
- 39: Sometimes to Coligny and the Huguenots
- 40: Admiral Coligny was requested by Catharine
- 41: Catharine and the Duke of Alva had done their work skilfully
- 42: The Valois line had become extinct
- 43: And of course designed as a check upon the Hapsburgs
- 44: It was France in struggle with Concini
- 45: He hated Corneille as much as he did the enemies of France
- 46: When Cardinal Mazarin died in 1661
- 47: Even Colbert could not create money out of nothing
- 48: Ending with the peace of Nymwegen
- 49: Not even from Fenelon or Bossuet
- 50: And de Montespan was sent away
- 51: Which was just what the regent needed
- 52: How should the empress of Austria
- 53: The various instructors of Louis XV
- 54: The marquise has a bad day for her journey
- 55: Were at Versailles Louis the Dauphin
- 56: Indignation was great at Versailles
- 57: And the Tiers Etat declared itself the National Assembly
- 58: Under the direction of Lafayette
- 59: Throwing their tricolors under the table
- 60: Neither a Girondist nor a Jacobin
- 61: A Girondist waiting in the Conciergerie
- 62: And the story became current that Marie Antoinette
- 63: So when this defection of Dumouriez came
- 64: But Austria was jealous of Prussia
- 65: Illustration Napoleon at the Battle of Rivoli
- 66: Napoleon Bonaparte was sole master of France
- 67: The darkness under the walls of Vincennes
- 68: Illustration Josephine crowned Empress
- 69: The allied powers named Louis XVIII
- 70: Immediately returned to the Tuileries
- 71: Louis Philippe was not King of France
- 72: The nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
- 73: There occurred the famous coup d'etat
- 74: The little Kingdom of Sardinia
- 75: Instead of a disrupted United States
- 76: And Von Moltke were quartered at Versailles
- 77: A more pronounced monarchist than he
- 78: Grevy succeeded Marshal MacMahon
- 79: The extraordinary popularity of General Boulanger
- 80: Faure succeeded to the presidency
- 81: This sentence was remitted by President Loubet
- 82: The particular contention which agitates France to day
- 83: Financial prosperity and political strength restored
- 84: Sovereigns and rulers of france
- 85: 1498 VALOIS ANGOULEME Francis I
- 86: 262 Committee of Public Safety
- 87: 179 201 Revolutionary Tribunal