Story of Old France

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - History

Authors: H. A. Guerber In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

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Preface
France Long Ago
How the Gauls Came Into France
The Priests of the Gauls
Sailor Stories
Conquests of the Gauls
Two Great Battles
Caesar in Gaul
Gaul Under the Romans
The First Christian Martyrs
The Patron Saint of France
How the Franks Came Into Gaul
The First Kings
Conversion and Conquests of Clovis
Clotaire and His Relatives
Two Rival Queens
Good King Dagobert and His Successors
The Saracens Checked
The End of the Merovingians
Charlemagne's Wars
Charlemagne's Manner of Life
Charlemagne, Emperor
Feudalism
Troublesome Sons
The Strassburg Oath
The Normans Besiege Paris
The Last of the Carolingians
The Year One Thousand
Robert's Two Wives
The Wealth of the Clergy
The First Crusade
A Love Story
The Second Crusade
More Crusades
The Battle of Bouvines
Regency of Blanche of Castile
The Sixth Crusade
The Reign of Louis IX
Effect of the Crusades
The Battle of the Spurs
Death of the Knights Templar
The Beginning of the Hundred Years' War
The Siege of Calais
The Battle of Poitiers
Seven Years of Misery (1356-1363)
Th Brave Du Guesclin
The Achievements of Charles V.
Charles VI.
Misrule in France
The Disgraceful Treaty
Joan to the Rescue
Orleans and Rheims
Joan's Captivity and Martyrdom
Charles's Successes
The Crafty King Louis XI.
Beginning of Louis XI.'s Reign
Achievements of Louis XI.
Charles VIII.
Second Italian War
Death of Louis XII.
Francis I.
Rivalry of Kings
Achievements of Francis I.
The End of Francis I.'s Reign
The Reign of Henry II.
A Young King and Queen
Catherine's Regency
The Forced Wedding
The Massacre of the Hueguenots
Death of Charles IX.
An Effeminate King
The Battle of Coutras
The Murder of the Guises
Winning a Crown
Conversion of Henry IV.
Henry IV.'s Second Marriage
Death of Henry IV.
The Minority of Louis XIII.
The Rule of Favorites
Richelieu and Louis XIII.
End of Louis XIII.'s Reign
The Beginning of a Great Reign
The Wars of the Fronde
Death of Mazarin
Versailles
The Iron Mask
Louis XIV.'s Personal Campaigns
Madame de Maintenon
Later Wars of Louis XIV.
The Spanish Succession
The Age of Louis XIV.

The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additional illuminating detail as limited space permits. Besides outlines of the principal events, this narrative includes many biographical sketches, together with the anecdotes and sayings to which allusions are often made in literature, politics, and arts. It also gives such data in regard to places, public buildings, and works of art as the well informed like to have at their fingers' ends. (from the Preface)