. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. TRIAL OF JOHN, DUC DALENCON, scused of having conspired with the English against France, he was brought before Charles VII holding a bed of justice at Vendome in by Jehan Foucquet in the collection of Herr Brentano at Francfort-on-the Main. xv,h FEUDALISM. 25 abuse of power on the part of this same nobility, whose authority steadilydiminished. Admitted by Philippe-le-Bel to the general assemblies of thenation and to the sessions of the states-general, the bourgeoisie became oneof the
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. TRIAL OF JOHN, DUC DALENCON, scused of having conspired with the English against France, he was brought before Charles VII holding a bed of justice at Vendome in by Jehan Foucquet in the collection of Herr Brentano at Francfort-on-the Main. xv,h FEUDALISM. 25 abuse of power on the part of this same nobility, whose authority steadilydiminished. Admitted by Philippe-le-Bel to the general assemblies of thenation and to the sessions of the states-general, the bourgeoisie became oneof the states, an order of the kingdom, that is, the tiers-etat. It absorbed theoffices pertaining to the general administration and to finance, it furnishedthe lower orders of the clergy with most of their distinguished representa-tives, and the municipalities with the most gifted of their magistrates; itacquired the right of purchasing offices which carried nobility with them, ofpossessing seignorial domains with high and petty justice, and thus it forcedits way like ivy into the crevices of the feudal edifice, which stone by stonecrumbled to pieces. Philippe-le-Bel, surnamed the King of the Lawyers—whohelped him in a material degree to carry out his designs—showed himself, asa natural consequence, the King of the Commons {tiers-etat), and the sec
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