The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . ever card-player from Spain ; for ahorse for the royal cook, so that he could always be onhand for the kings dinner ; for the beautiful ladies of thecourt, with whom Francis spent his time and on whom helavished presents. He did not care much for his hungrypeople, but he cared a great deal for show. He wrote pret-ty verses himself, and he helped others who wrote, as wellas those who built fine buildings or carved fine is the fashion to call his era the period of the Rena
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . ever card-player from Spain ; for ahorse for the royal cook, so that he could always be onhand for the kings dinner ; for the beautiful ladies of thecourt, with whom Francis spent his time and on whom helavished presents. He did not care much for his hungrypeople, but he cared a great deal for show. He wrote pret-ty verses himself, and he helped others who wrote, as wellas those who built fine buildings or carved fine is the fashion to call his era the period of the Renaissance,which means that art and letters were then born again ;and perhaps he had something to do with the birth. Butit was much more largely due to a waking of the publicmind from a sleep which had lasted a thousand years,and that waking was seen more plainly in religion thanin anj^thing else. For a long time good Christians had been dissatisfiedwith the Church. They hated to see the popes mixing inpolitics and contending with kings ; and they were notpleased with the tax which the popes levied on Christian. THE BURNING OP HERETICS countries in the shape of Peters pence, or with the raisingof money by the sale of pardons for sins past or to every country brave and intelligent priests had risento protest, and to say that these things were wrong. Butno two of them agreed what should be done, and the Churchwas able to break down each separately, either by burn-ing him as a heretic, or by keeping him in prison, or insome other way. lJ6 [1515-1547 Thus, John Huss, of Prague, protested, was caught,tried, and burned at Constance. Girolamo Savonarola, ofFlorence, was seized and was hanged and burned. JohnWyckliffe, of England, was arrested and tried ; the priestswere afraid to execute him because when they proposedto do so an angry light came into the eye of the sturdyEnglish people. John Calvin was driven out of bold Martin Luther, in Germany, set the pope at de-fi
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