. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. St. Andes To^er. days before the beginning of authen-tic history, it was first captured andpillaged by the Normans under Ogerle Danois, in the days of Charles theBald, about 841. The conquerors didnot hold the city permanently at thattime, but came again in S76, underRollo, first duke of Normandy, and .vS ROUEN: A DAY IN THE NORMAN CAPITA/... this time they re- of France, John II, was captured bymained, Rouen soon the English, soon changed the French becoming the seat of from conquerors to fugitives, and ruin mi mm.
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. St. Andes To^er. days before the beginning of authen-tic history, it was first captured andpillaged by the Normans under Ogerle Danois, in the days of Charles theBald, about 841. The conquerors didnot hold the city permanently at thattime, but came again in S76, underRollo, first duke of Normandy, and .vS ROUEN: A DAY IN THE NORMAN CAPITA/... this time they re- of France, John II, was captured bymained, Rouen soon the English, soon changed the French becoming the seat of from conquerors to fugitives, and ruin mi mm. Norman power. As the capital ofthe Duchy of Nor-mandy, Rouen wasof course held as oneof the possessions ofthe Norman kings ofEngland. Williamthe Conquerer diedand was buried thereafter being injuredat the burning ofMantes. Richard Cceur de Lion re-turned to England from his captivityin Austria, passing through Rouenon the way, and it was only after thedeath of this famous warrior thatPhilip II of France succeeded inwresting Normandy from John ofEngland, in 1214. This triumphwas comparatively short lived, how- and desolation spread over the if this were not enough to bear,the French monarch in later yearssent a demand for the restoration toFrance of the conquered territory toHenrv Y of England, the greatest of 8* the Lancastrian kings. The dauphin ever, for soon came one of the bold- Charles tauntingly s
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