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Caesar in Gaul Conditions and Terms of Use PREFACE Copyright © Heritage History 2010 The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic Some rights reserved account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 This text was produced and distributed by Heritage History, an A.D., with as much additional illuminating detail as limited organization dedicated to the preservation of classical juvenile history books, space permits. Besides outlines of the principal events, this and to the promotion of the works of traditional history authors. narrative includes many biographical sketches, together with the The books which Heritage History republishes are in the public anecdotes and sayings to which allusions are often made in domain and are no longer protected by the original copyright. They may literature, politics, and art. 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Original Copyright 1910 by Helene Guerber 2 Distributed by Heritage History 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE SECOND CRUSADE .......................................................48 MORE CRUSADES ................................................................49 FRANCE LONG AGO ............................................................. 4 THE BATTLE OF BOUVINES ..................................................51 HOW THE GAULS CAME INTO FRANCE .................................. 5 REGENCY OF BLANCHE OF CASTILE .....................................52 SAILOR STORIES .................................................................. 8 THE SIXTH CRUSADE ..........................................................53 CONQUESTS OF THE GAULS .................................................. 9 THE REIGN OF LOUIS IX. .....................................................54 TWO GREAT BATTLES .........................................................10 EFFECT OF THE CRUSADES ..................................................55 CAESAR IN GAUL ................................................................11 THE BATTLE OF THE SPURS .................................................57 GAUL UNDER THE ROMANS ................................................13 DEATH OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR ......................................58 THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYRS .........................................15 THE BEGINNING OF THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR .................60 THE PATRON SAINT OF FRANCE ..........................................15 THE SIEGE OF CALAIS .........................................................61 HOW THE FRANKS CAME INTO GAUL ...................................17 THE BATTLE OF POITIERS ....................................................63 THE FIRST KINGS ................................................................18 SEVEN YEARS OF MISERY (1356-1363) ...............................65 CONVERSION AND CONQUESTS OF CLOVIS ...........................20 THE BRAVE DU GUESCLIN ..................................................67 CLOTAIRE AND HIS RELATIVES ...........................................22 THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF CHARLES V. ..................................69 TWO RIVAL QUEENS ...........................................................23 CHARLES VI. ......................................................................71 GOOD KING DAGOBERT AND HIS SUCCESSORS ....................25 MISRULE IN FRANCE ...........................................................73 THE SARACENS CHECKED ...................................................26 THE DISGRACEFUL TREATY ................................................75 THE END OF THE MEROVINGIANS ........................................27 JOAN TO THE RESCUE ..........................................................76 CHARLEMAGNE'S WARS ......................................................28 ORLEANS AND RHEIMS ........................................................78 CHARLEMAGNE'S MANNER OF LIFE .....................................30 JOAN'S CAPTIVITY AND MARTYRDOM .................................80 CHARLEMAGNE, EMPEROR ..................................................32 CHARLES'S SUCCESSES ........................................................82 FEUDALISM .........................................................................34 THE CRAFTY KING LOUIS XI. ..............................................83 TROUBLESOME SONS ..........................................................36 BEGINNING OF LOUIS XI'S REIGN. .......................................85 THE STRASSRURG OATH .....................................................37 ACHIEVEMENTS OF LOUIS XI ..............................................86 THE NORMANS BESIEGE PARIS ............................................38 CHARLES VIII .....................................................................88 THE LAST OF THE CAROLINGIANS ........................................39 SECOND ITALIAN WAR ........................................................90 THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND .................................................41 DEATH OF LOUIS XII. .........................................................92 ROBERT'S TWO WIVES ........................................................42 FRANCIS I. ..........................................................................94 THE WEALTH OF THE CLERGY .............................................43 RIVALRY OF KINGS .............................................................95 THE FIRST CRUSADE ...........................................................45 ACHIEVEMENTS OF FRANCIS I .............................................98 A LOVE STORY ...................................................................47 THE END OF FRANCIS I'S REIGN ...........................................99 Original Copyright 1910 by Helene Guerber 3 Distributed by Heritage History 2009 THE REIGN OF HENRY II.................................................... 102 FRANCE LONG AGO A YOUNG KING AND QUEEN ............................................. 104 CATHERINE'S REGENCY..................................................... 105 The beautiful stretch of land bounded by the Rhine, the THE FORCED WEDDING ..................................................... 107 Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pyrenees, and the Atlantic Ocean THE MASSACRE OF THE HUGUENOTS ................................. 109 was once a wild extent of forests and swamps, inhabited by men of a strange race. DEATH OF CHARLES IX ..................................................... 110 AN EFFEMINATE KING ...................................................... 111 These first settlers were so rough
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