. The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . THE CORONATION OF CHARLES VII. AT RHEIMS 1. Louiss Treaty with Charlks the Bold at Peronne Chapter LXXXVIII THE RISE AND FALL OF BURGUNDY—LOUIS XI. HE Hundred Years War offers us little of interest after the death of Joan. The English failed to gain from her execution the advantage they had hoped. Their power over France had been thoroughly shaken. King
. The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation . THE CORONATION OF CHARLES VII. AT RHEIMS 1. Louiss Treaty with Charlks the Bold at Peronne Chapter LXXXVIII THE RISE AND FALL OF BURGUNDY—LOUIS XI. HE Hundred Years War offers us little of interest after the death of Joan. The English failed to gain from her execution the advantage they had hoped. Their power over France had been thoroughly shaken. King Charles found a third Breton gentleman, De Richemont, for his Lord Constable. The King and Constable were never friends; Charles accepted the others services unwillingly; but Richemont, like Joan, served France rather than the King, and continued capturing from the English one stronghold after another. We have said little of the awful state to which France hadbeen again reduced during these long years of invasion andcivil war. Wolves pursued their prey in the streets of Paris,and most of the land was a wilderness. One of Joans main difficulties in driving the English out ofthe Loire valley, had been to discover their armies amid the forests which hadsprung up there. Her chief
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