hand, not to speak of the "Three
Bishoprics"--Metz, Toul, and Verdun--definitely incorporated with
the French dominions in 1552, France had for a longer or shorter
time possession of the Duchy of Milan, of the island of Corsica,
and of Piedmont. Not only Bresse, but the very Duchy of Savoy, were
for years merged in the realm of France, until restored to
Philibert Emmanuel by the disgraceful Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 3: Mignet, Essai sur la formation territoriale et politique de
la France depuis la fin du onzieme siecle jusqu'a la fin du quiinzieme.
Notices et Memoires Historiques, ii. 154.]

[Footnote 4: Mignet, 157, 158.]

[Footnote 5: A manuscript chronicle of the time of Charles the Sixth,
quoted by Guizot, Histoire de la Civilisation en France, iv. 144, states
the interesting fact that the inhabitants of Perigord and the adjoining
districts, thus surrendered to Henry the Third of England, for centuries
bore so hearty a grudge against the French king, of whom the rest of
France was justly proud, and whose name the church had enrolled in the
calendar, that they never would consent to regard him as a saint or to
celebrate his feast day!]

[Footnote 6: "Le quali tutte provincie sono cosi bene poste," etc.
Relazione di Francia dell' Amb. Marino Cavalli, in Relations des
Ambassadeurs Venitiens (Tommaseo, Paris), i. 220.]

[Footnote 7: "Dico che il regno di Francia per universal consenso del
mondo fu riputato _il primo regno di cristianita_," etc. Commentario del
regno di Francia del clarissimo sig. Michel Suriano, Rel. des Amb. Ven.,
i. 470.]

[Footnote 8: "Dopo il papa che e universal capo della religione, e la
signoria di Venezia, che, come e nata, s'e conservata sempre cristiana."
Suriano, _ubi supra_, i. 472.]

[Footnote 9: This was in the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Dec.
15, 1559, MSS. British Museum. I use the summary in the Calendar of
State Papers (Stevenson), p. 197, note.]

[Footnote 10: Marino Cavalli stated, in 1546, that this systematic
policy of continually incorporating and never alienating had been
pursued for eighty years. So successful had it proved, that everything
had been absorbed by confiscation, succession, or purchase. There was,
perhaps, no longer a single prince in the kingdom with an income of
20,000 crowns; while even their scanty resources and straitened estates
the princes possessed simply as ordinary proprietors, fr