Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . king took the child to Paris, and thereboth he and the royal infant were as to King Henry V. the end was nowat hand. He died at Vincenues in Augustof 1422, bequeathing the regency of Franceto his brother, the Duke of Bedford, and theEnglish crown to his infant son, afterwardsHenry VI. Nor did the disordered faculties grip on the country. It
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . king took the child to Paris, and thereboth he and the royal infant were as to King Henry V. the end was nowat hand. He died at Vincenues in Augustof 1422, bequeathing the regency of Franceto his brother, the Duke of Bedford, and theEnglish crown to his infant son, afterwardsHenry VI. Nor did the disordered faculties grip on the country. It thus became neces-sary that Charles VII. should have his coro-nation performed at Poitiers. And so, witha feeble show of pomp and an actual disjalayof poverty, the new reign was ushered in ! Meanwhile the English, ready to gain ad-vantage from every circumstance, sought toprofit by the transfer of the crown. TheDuke of Bedford and his generals salliedforth, and, marching from town to town, car-ried all before them. As to the Burgundians,however, their union with the foreign enemiesof France proved the ruin of the faction, fortheir unpatriotic conduct alienated from themthe affections of all true Frenchmen, In Ae Sa1^~;.,!^>>?C-Jl. MASSACRE OF ARMAGNACS BY THE by A. de Neuville. of Charles VI. much longer tenant their mor-tal habitation. In the fall of the same yearhe died, being then in the forty-third yearof his reign and the thirty-first of his in-sanity. The coterie of nobles who adhered to thefortunes of the Dauphin were not slow toproclaim him king. It appears that the realheart of France had never sympathized withthe Burgundian scheme for the establishmentof an English dynasty, and the proclamationof their own prince was an act well pleasingto a majority of Frenchmen. It was not pos-sible, however, that Charles should be crownedat Rheims, and that for the sufficient reasonthat Rheims was held by the English, whowere not at all disposed to relinquis
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