. Twenty centuries of Paris . /f «_<vw/vr f/// ~jff~ m° .^£A/^/i/n V f~t - •» / t////f/. i/4. THE LOUVRE IN THE TIME OF PHILIP an old print owned by the City of FRAGMENT OF THE WALL OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS AS IT LOOKS TO-DAY. PARIS OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS 75 of France was added to the northern and west-ern possessions which were accumulating underPhilips control. Poor-spirited as was John, now called Lack-land, he could not see himself deprived of hisown land and his rival growing rich in otherprovinces without making some opposition. Heentered into a coalition with the Germa
. Twenty centuries of Paris . /f «_<vw/vr f/// ~jff~ m° .^£A/^/i/n V f~t - •» / t////f/. i/4. THE LOUVRE IN THE TIME OF PHILIP an old print owned by the City of FRAGMENT OF THE WALL OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS AS IT LOOKS TO-DAY. PARIS OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS 75 of France was added to the northern and west-ern possessions which were accumulating underPhilips control. Poor-spirited as was John, now called Lack-land, he could not see himself deprived of hisown land and his rival growing rich in otherprovinces without making some opposition. Heentered into a coalition with the German emperorand with the Count of Flanders, who was one ofPhilips important vassals. Philip defeated thecombined armies in the battle of Bouvines (1214)and thereby made himself the most powerfulmonarch in Europe. The success of the citizensoldiery established the reputation of the bur-gesses as strong and intelligent fighters andthereby struck terror to the hearts of nobles whowere nursing plans of rebellion like those of thecaptured Count of Flanders. Yet nobles wereone with burgesses in rejoicing over Johns finaldismissal from any governing part in northernFrance and over the defeat
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