The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . - sea-coast. Charles the Seventh was king in name if not in fact fornearly forty years. But he was so helpless a creature thatin all that time he did nothing by which you can remem-ber him. For twenty years he was ruled by a beautiful andgentle lady named Agnes Sorel, who seems always to haveadvised him wisely ; she died very suddenly, probably frompoison given through the arts of the dauphin, who becameLouis the Eleventh. His sister Katharine, who had beenthe wife of King Henry th
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . - sea-coast. Charles the Seventh was king in name if not in fact fornearly forty years. But he was so helpless a creature thatin all that time he did nothing by which you can remem-ber him. For twenty years he was ruled by a beautiful andgentle lady named Agnes Sorel, who seems always to haveadvised him wisely ; she died very suddenly, probably frompoison given through the arts of the dauphin, who becameLouis the Eleventh. His sister Katharine, who had beenthe wife of King Henry the Fifth of England, married aWelshman named Owen Tudor after Henrys death; andhis mother turned out very badly after she lost her madhusband. When her little grandson, English Henry, wasbrought to Paris to be crowned, the grandmother stood ata window as the boy passed and burst into tears; but thestern cardinal who had Henry in charge would not let himsee her. She died very poor, without a friend to give hera cup of water on her LOUIS XI Chapter XXV LOUIS THE ELEVENTH 1461-1483 About the middle of the fifteenth century the mostsplendid court in Europe was that of the Duke of Bur-gundy. He was a greater man than the King of Francehimself. He not only ruled over Burgundy, but his powerwas felt all through Holland, Flanders, Alsace, and Lor-raine, and the country which lies between modern Franceand Germany, from the mouth of the Rhine to the richslopes in which the blue Rhone begins its flow. Someplaces had sovereigns of their own. Liege was ruled bybishops, who were terrible fighters ; and the lord of alarge territory was a fierce baron, whose name was Will-iam de ]a Marck, but who was generally called the WildBoar of the Ardennes. But they all bowed to the Dukeof Burs^undy. He held his court at Brussels, and there he gatheredaround him the most learned scholars and the most gallantsoldiers of the day ; to attract them he created an orderof the GrPlden Fleece, wh
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