. 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 . France—Growth of the Kingly Power 879 powerful, until in the later Valois period Paris was stronger than any singlenoble. We shall now see this strength of the people still further increasingwith their intellect—first in the cities, then among the country peasants, untilat last, in the great Revolution of 1789, they burst all bounds and re-establishedthe
. 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 . France—Growth of the Kingly Power 879 powerful, until in the later Valois period Paris was stronger than any singlenoble. We shall now see this strength of the people still further increasingwith their intellect—first in the cities, then among the country peasants, untilat last, in the great Revolution of 1789, they burst all bounds and re-establishedthemselves as the only source of authority, the only true foundation upon whicha government can be constructed. In 1610, however, this great truth was by no means accepted. There werethree, if not four, powers which considered themselves vastly more importantthan the ignorant and down-trodden people. These were the King, the Nobil-ity, the Clergy, and the Law. Least prominent of these at the time was theLaw, Weak because only the weak obeyed it, it became a mere tool in thehands of the strong. Its main representative was the Parliament of Paris,which was in no respect a parliament in the modern sense—that is, an assem-bly of law-mak
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