Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . ther extended notice of the free cities ofFrance and Germany. Suffice it to say thatin these democratic municipalities the spiritof political liberty was fostered and a greatcitizenship established which, after five centu-ries of alternate repression and growth, wasdestined to rise up like the sea and make theEuropean mouarchs tremble in their capitols.
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . ther extended notice of the free cities ofFrance and Germany. Suffice it to say thatin these democratic municipalities the spiritof political liberty was fostered and a greatcitizenship established which, after five centu-ries of alternate repression and growth, wasdestined to rise up like the sea and make theEuropean mouarchs tremble in their succeeding chapters of the presentBook it shall be the purjjose to give an ac-count of the development of this popularpolitical society, of its union with the kings,and the gradual extinction of Feudalism un-der the combined pressure of these two forcesin society. Let us, then, resume the narra-tive which was broken off with the recaptureof Acre by the Moslems, and trace the his-tory of France from that epoch down to theclose of the fifteenth century, at which timethe discovery of the New World changedthe direction of the activities and divertedthe ambitions of mankind. Charter >ccv.—Kkance in Fourteenth:AND Fifteenth HE transfer of the crownof France from the headof Philip III. to that ofhis son, Philip IV., sur-named the Fair, was notfijrtuuate for the king-dom. The latter sover-eign was more noted for beauty of personthan for graces of head or heart. Nor washis naturally perverse disposition in any wiseimproved by his marriage with Jane of Na-varre, whose rank was much better than hercharacter. A few years after the accession of the new•sovereign the kingdom became involved in awar with England. The circumstances whichgave rise to this conflict are highly illustrativeof the spirit of the age. In 1292 two sailors,a Norman and an Englishman, quarreled andfought on the wharf of Bayonne. Finallythe Englishman stabbed his antagonist. Underthe imperfect law p
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