The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . endship. Such love andaffection had never been seen be-fore. On the following evening,as Louis was going home at abouteight, with only a few attendants,he was waylaid, in the Rue duTemple, by seven or eight men,masked and with red hoods on,who fell upon him with axes andswords and maces. He washeard to cry, Whats this ?Whats this ? To which his mur-derers answered, Die ! Die ! After a moment the chief ofthem ordered, Out with your torches; he isdead enousfh. And one of them strikin
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . endship. Such love andaffection had never been seen be-fore. On the following evening,as Louis was going home at abouteight, with only a few attendants,he was waylaid, in the Rue duTemple, by seven or eight men,masked and with red hoods on,who fell upon him with axes andswords and maces. He washeard to cry, Whats this ?Whats this ? To which his mur-derers answered, Die ! Die ! After a moment the chief ofthem ordered, Out with your torches; he isdead enousfh. And one of them striking hima heavy blow on the head with amace to make sure, they all ran away, leaving the body inthe street. John the Fearless was not ashamed of his bloody the next day he said, What has been done has been done by my orders,And he made haste to Burgundy, whence he returned toParis with an army and compelled the poor mad king togive him a pardon. The priests j)reached sermons declar-ing that the murder was just, because the Duke of Orleanswas Gods actual war broke out between the two DUKE OF BURGUNDY 1380-1422] 139 The old Orleans party took the name of Armagnacs, fromtheir leader, the Count of Armagnac ; they threatened thecity of Paris, which, in its old way, organized an army ofits own for its own protection, with a butcher, a surgeon,and an executioner at its head. Neither the butcher northe surgeon, nor even the executioner, however, could pre-vent the Armagnacs from getting possession of the held it for a long time, and when the Duke of Bur-gundy sent a monk in to spy out the defences, the Ar-magnacs put him in a niche in a wall and walled him the Duke of Burgundy was declared a rebel, and hisFrench estates were confiscated. Three years afterward the keys of the city were stolenby a friend of the dukes ; the gates were opened one darknight, a Burgundian army poured in, and the Count of Ar-magnac and all his followers were massa
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