A Brief History of FranceA.S. Barnes, 1875 - 299 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
afterward alliance allied Anjou arms army assassinated Assembly Austrasia Austria battle Bourbon Brittany Buonaparte Burgundy called Capet captured century Charlemagne Charles Charles VII church Clovis Condé conquered conquests Count Count of Paris court crown daughter dauphin death declared defeated duke of Berry Duke of Guise Duke of Orleans emperor empire enemy England English Europe famous fell feudal forced fortress France French king Gaul German Girondists grand Guard Guise head Henry honor Hugh Capet Huguenots hundred Italy Jacobins king's liberty Lorraine Louis XIII Louis XIV Louis XVI Madame marched Maria Marie Antoinette Marshal Masséna Mazarin minister monarch Napoleon nation Navarre night nobles palace Paris peace Philip Pope Prince prisoners queen reign republic Revolution Rhine Richelieu royal Russians sent shouted siege soldiers soon Spain Spanish surrendered sword throne took Treaty troops Tuileries Turenne Valois Versailles victory
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Página 201 - Blood flows; the aliment of new madness. The wounded are carried into houses of the Rue Cerisaie; the dying leave their last mandate not to yield till the accursed Stronghold fall. And yet, alas, how fall? The walls are so thick!
Página 201 - that we are here by the will of the people, and nothing but the bayonet shall drive us hence.
Página 216 - He preferred wanting anything and everything to calling his persecutors. His bed was not stirred for six months, and he had not strength to make it himself. For more than a year he had no change of shirt or stockings.
Página 41 - ... as his own words expressed it, " the drippings of the rain from the holy roof may wash my bones as I lie, and may cleanse them from the spots of impurity contracted in my negligent and neglected life.
Página 196 - They seem capable of articulation, and, when they stand erect, they display human lineaments. They are, in fact, men. They retire at night into their dens where they live on black bread, water and roots. They spare other human beings the trouble of sowing, ploughing and harvesting, and thus should not be in want of the bread they have planted.
Página 49 - Maulac shrunk from the deed, and that John seized his nephew by the hair, stabbed him with his own hands, and threw his body into the river.
Página 53 - Henry, turning round to him, you do not speak truth in saying that I have nothing left to give, when I have got yourself. Here, Sir Knight, I give you this man and warrant your possession of him. Then, says Joinville, the poor knight was not at all confounded, but seized hold of the burgess fast by the collar, and told him he should not go till he had ransomed himself. And in the end he was forced to pay a ransom of five hundred pounds. The simple-minded writer who brings this evidence...
Página 4 - I have already avowed my belief, that to each of the nations of the earth belongs, by a divine decree, a distinctive character adapted to the peculiar office assigned to each in the great and comprehensive system of human affairs.
Página 210 - Austrian," that she may die to save the queen. Orators on tables, orators on men's ehoulders, fifty orators at once, make a distracting bedlam; while women shriek their inane curses, and butchers and brewers fight for the supremacy in bringing down the royal pride. — As the crowd press on, a woman's voice overtops the rest in gross abuse of the queen. " What have I ever done to you that you should hate me so ?
Página 100 - ... during the night. All which things being considered, it seemeth to the States-General that the king ought to have pity on his poor people, and ought to relieve them from the said tallies and charges.