. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Louis XI. and Francis de Paula. 200 HISTORY OF FRANCE,. Charles VIII. CHAPTER XXII. CHARLES VIII., SURNAMED THE AFFABLE ANDCOURTEOUS. The king of France, with twenty thousand men,Marched up the hill, and then marched down again. Old Proverb. A. D. 1. Charles had reached his fourteenth year, the14ft? kg3* a£e °f majority> a^ the time of his fathers death, but the weakness of his constitution, and the ignorancein which he had been brought up, rendered him unfit to un-dertake the management of affairs. Louis h
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Louis XI. and Francis de Paula. 200 HISTORY OF FRANCE,. Charles VIII. CHAPTER XXII. CHARLES VIII., SURNAMED THE AFFABLE ANDCOURTEOUS. The king of France, with twenty thousand men,Marched up the hill, and then marched down again. Old Proverb. A. D. 1. Charles had reached his fourteenth year, the14ft? kg3* a£e °f majority> a^ the time of his fathers death, but the weakness of his constitution, and the ignorancein which he had been brought up, rendered him unfit to un-dertake the management of affairs. Louis had by will ap-pointed Anne, princess of Beaujeu, guardian to her brother, awoman of excellent understanding, high spirit, and vigorousresomtion, possessing much of her fathers craft, without anyshare of his cruelty and perfidy. 2. The princes of the bloodespecially the dukes of Bourbon and Orleans, thought it be-neath their dignity to submit to the control of a woman ; they CHARLES VHI. 201 declared that since the Salic law excluded females from thecrown, by similar reasoning it made them incapable of exer-cising regal functions, an
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