. Twenty centuries of Paris . that heshould not. What he wanted was his land andthat he could take now with perfect justice whenthe court declared John guilty of murder and oftreason in disobeying the orders of his estates in France which John had inheritedfrom his father, those in the north, were confis-cated to the French crown. It was all mucheasier than fighting. While diplomacy gained for Philip thesenorthern possessions and the power that wentwith them, he gained a like addition in the southby a system of letting alone. Simon de Mont-fort, a noble of Normandy, entered upon a
. Twenty centuries of Paris . that heshould not. What he wanted was his land andthat he could take now with perfect justice whenthe court declared John guilty of murder and oftreason in disobeying the orders of his estates in France which John had inheritedfrom his father, those in the north, were confis-cated to the French crown. It was all mucheasier than fighting. While diplomacy gained for Philip thesenorthern possessions and the power that wentwith them, he gained a like addition in the southby a system of letting alone. Simon de Mont-fort, a noble of Normandy, entered upon a cru-sade against the people of Albi, in Toulouse, atown and district heretical enough to attract theattention of the persecutor and rich enough todraw the gaze of the avaricious soldier of destruction that ensued laid waste a faircountry and wiped out the greater part of itspopulation. A few years later the province fellin to the crown in default of direct heirs to theruling family of Toulouse, and thus the south. /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 Paris.
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