A popular history of France : from the earliest times . his customary orisons in a low voice, and he was heardmurmuring these broken words: Fair Sir God, have mercy onthis people that bideth here, and bring them back to their ownland! Let them not fall into the hands of their enemies, andlet them not be constrained to deny Thy name ! And at thesame time that he thus expressed his sad reflections upon thesituation in which he was leaving his army and his people, hecried from time to time, as he raised himself on his bed, Jeru-salem ! Jerusalem! We will go up to Jerusalem ! Duringthe night of th
A popular history of France : from the earliest times . his customary orisons in a low voice, and he was heardmurmuring these broken words: Fair Sir God, have mercy onthis people that bideth here, and bring them back to their ownland! Let them not fall into the hands of their enemies, andlet them not be constrained to deny Thy name ! And at thesame time that he thus expressed his sad reflections upon thesituation in which he was leaving his army and his people, hecried from time to time, as he raised himself on his bed, Jeru-salem ! Jerusalem! We will go up to Jerusalem ! Duringthe night of the 24th-25th of August he ceased to speak, allthe time continuing to show that he was in full possession ofhis senses; he insisted upon receiving extreme unction out ofbed, and lying upon a coarse sack-cloth covered with cinders,with the cross before him ; and on Monday, the 25th of August,1270, at three P. M., he departed in peace, whilst uttering thesehis last words: Father, after the example of the Divine Mas-ter, into Thy hands I commend my spirit!. THE DEATH OF ST. LOUTS. — Page 64. Chap. THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE. 65 CHAPTER XVIII. THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE. THAT the kingship occupied an important place and playedan important part in the history of France is an evident anduniversally recognized fact. But to what causes this fact wasdue, and what particular characteristics gave the kingship inFrance that preponderating influence which, in weal and in woe,it exercised over the fortunes of the country, is a question whichhas been less closely examined, and which still remains vagueand obscure. This question it is which we would now shedlight upon and determine with some approach to precision. Wecannot properly comprehend and justly appreciate a great his-torical force until we have seen it issuing from its primarysource and followed it in its various developments. At the first glance, two facts strike us in the history of thekingship in France. It was in France that it ad
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