. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . a very char-acteristic and quite untranscribable way. Benvenuto wasmore than ever patronised by the king, who did him thegreat honour of accosting him as mon ami, and approving hisscheme for the fortification of Paris. The artist oftenremembered with pleasure the four years he spent with thegran re Francesco at Paris. The French are remembered in Italy only by thegraves they left there, said De Comines, and once again theItalian campaigns ended in disaster. At the defeat of Pavia,in 1525—the Armageddon of the
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . a very char-acteristic and quite untranscribable way. Benvenuto wasmore than ever patronised by the king, who did him thegreat honour of accosting him as mon ami, and approving hisscheme for the fortification of Paris. The artist oftenremembered with pleasure the four years he spent with thegran re Francesco at Paris. The French are remembered in Italy only by thegraves they left there, said De Comines, and once again theItalian campaigns ended in disaster. At the defeat of Pavia,in 1525—the Armageddon of the French in Italy—theefl^orts and sacrifices of three reigns were lost and the gran rewent captive to the king of Spain in Madrid, whence heissued,stained by perjury and three years later, signed themoral annihilation of France in Europe, at Cambray. During the tranquil intervals that ensued on this rudeawakening from dreams of an Italian Empire,and the third andfourth wars with the emperor, the king was able to give effectto a project that had long been dear to him. Come, says. THE RENAISSANCE AT PARIS 155 Michelet, in the still, dark night, climb the Rue , in the early winters morning. See you yon lights?Men, even old men, mingled with children, are hurrying, afolio under one arm, in the other an iron candlestick. Dothey turn to the right ? No, the old Sorbonne is yet sleep-ing snug in her warm sheets. The crowd is going to the Greekschools. Athens is at Paris. That man with the fine beardin majestic ermine is a descendant of emperors—Jean Las-caris ; that other doctor is Alexander, who teaches schools they were pressing to were those of theRoyal College of France. Already in 1517 Erasmushad been offered a salary of a thousand francs a year, withpromise of further increment, to undertake the direction ofthe college, but declined to leave his patron the prime movers in the great scheme were the kingsconfessor, Guillaume Parvi, and the famo
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