History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . their realmsand gain the mastery of their feudal dependents, who shared thepower with them; then the claims of the English Edwards andHenrys had to be met, and the French provinces freed from theirclutches; lastly, the great religious dispute was settled only aftermany years of disintegrating civil war. Louis XIV was, however, now at liberty to look about himand consider how he might best realize the dream of his ancestorsand perhaps reestablish the ancient boundaries which Caesar re-ported that the Gauls had
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . their realmsand gain the mastery of their feudal dependents, who shared thepower with them; then the claims of the English Edwards andHenrys had to be met, and the French provinces freed from theirclutches; lastly, the great religious dispute was settled only aftermany years of disintegrating civil war. Louis XIV was, however, now at liberty to look about himand consider how he might best realize the dream of his ancestorsand perhaps reestablish the ancient boundaries which Caesar re-ported that the Gauls had occupied. The natural limits ofFrance appeared to be the Rhine on the north and east, the JuraMountains and the Alps on the southeast, and to the soutli uicMediterranean and the Pyrenees. Richelieu had believed thatit was the chief end of his ministry to restore to France theboundaries determined for it by nature. Mazarin had laboredhard to win Savoy and Nice and to reach the Rhine on thenorth. Before his death France at least gained Alsace andreached the Pyrenees (§§815-817)..
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