The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . ^ou see at the theatres at this day. King and queen,courtiers and soldiers, did nothing all day but dance, sing,and frolic in these revels. France was fairly quiet. Theold robber bands had been crushed out. Farmers ploughedtheir fields in safety. People were not in much danger ifthey neither stole nor killed. The gay nation was reallygay. For the Great Lady, while king and queen frolicked,gave the people a good and just government. All was thus going well when the king, walking thr
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . ^ou see at the theatres at this day. King and queen,courtiers and soldiers, did nothing all day but dance, sing,and frolic in these revels. France was fairly quiet. Theold robber bands had been crushed out. Farmers ploughedtheir fields in safety. People were not in much danger ifthey neither stole nor killed. The gay nation was reallygay. For the Great Lady, while king and queen frolicked,gave the people a good and just government. All was thus going well when the king, walking throughan unfinished corridor in a palace he was building at Am-boise, struck his head against a beam. He did not at firstnotice that he had hurt himself, but went on talking andwatching a game of teunis, Presently he staggered and. CHATEAU DAMBOISE fell. A mattress was brought; he was laid on it. Theydared not move him ; and on that mattress, in that darkand dirty corridor, with shavings and chips all around him,he died three hours afterward. This was in April, 1498. Just four months afterward thegreat sailor Columbus first set foot on the continent ofAmerica. He had landed on several of the islands of theWest Indies six years before. But it was not till August2, 1498, that he discovered the mainland. \ >^ Chapter XXVII LOUIS THE 1498-1515 Charles the Eighth left no children ; he was succeed-ed on the throne by that Louis of Orleans whom the GreatLady had kept so long in jail, and who was the husband ofugly Joan. He is known as Louis the Twelfth. You willbe sorry to hear that his first act was to turn against thewife who had been so loyal to him in the days of his trouble. In order to make it certain that Brittany would remainpart of France, he got the pope to divorce him from hisfaithful Joan ; t
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