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Title: History of France

Author: Charlotte M. Yonge

Editor: J.R. Green

Release Date: December 12, 2005 [EBook #17287]

Language: English

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History Primers. _Edited by_ J.R. GREEN.

HISTORY OF FRANCE.

BY

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET.
1882.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAPTER I.

THE EARLIER KINGS OF FRANCE 1

CHAPTER II.

THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR 25

CHAPTER III.

THE STRUGGLE WITH BURGUNDY 43

CHAPTER IV.

THE ITALIAN WARS 52

CHAPTER V.

THE WARS OF RELIGION 63

CHAPTER VI.

POWER OF THE CROWN 81

CHAPTER VII.

THE REVOLUTION 102

CHAPTER VIII.

FRANCE SINCE THE REVOLUTION 116

[Illustration: MAP OF FRANCE.

_Shewing the Provinces._]

[Illustration: MAP OF FRANCE.

_Shewing the Departments._]

FRANCE.

CHAPTER I.

THE EARLIER KINGS OF FRANCE.

1. France.--The country we now know as France is the tract of land
shut in by the British Channel, the Bay of Biscay, the Pyrenees, the
Mediterranean, and the Alps. But this country only gained the name of
France by degrees. In the earliest days of which we have any account, it
was peopled by the Celts, and it was known to the Romans as part of a
larger country which bore the name of Gaul. After all of it, save the
north-western moorlands, or what we now call Brittany, had been
conquered and settled by the Romans, it was overrun by tribes of the
great Teutonic race, the same family to which Englishmen belong. Of
these tribes, the Goths settled in the provinces to the south; the
Burgundians, in the east, around the Jura; while the Franks, coming
over the rivers in its unprotected north-eastern corner, and making