. The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . ROLF THE GANGER ATTACKS PARIS France—Rolf Founds Normandy 789 established, and a most fortunate one it was for France. Otiier Norsemenwere granted similar, thougli smaller, lordships along the eastern coasts; andRolf and his countrymen guarded their domains well. Northmen stopped theravages of the Northmen. They did more than that. They infused into Fran
. The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . ROLF THE GANGER ATTACKS PARIS France—Rolf Founds Normandy 789 established, and a most fortunate one it was for France. Otiier Norsemenwere granted similar, thougli smaller, lordships along the eastern coasts; andRolf and his countrymen guarded their domains well. Northmen stopped theravages of the Northmen. They did more than that. They infused into France a new and muchneeded vigor. They embraced the superior civilization which they found, andcarried it higher; they learned the new language, and used it better than theirteachers. Readily uniting with the more numerous French, they became soft-ened in manners as in name. Their descendants were Frenchmen, the Nor-mans, a brilliant race, equally noted for their wit and their energy. Normanwriters and Norman poets disputed the palm of supremacy with those of thesouth. The whole north of France revived as if by an enchanters period of devastation was at an end, and the period of reconstruction William the Conqueror, Dcke of Normandt
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