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)
PrefaceFrance Long AgoHow the Gauls Came Into FranceThe Priests of the GaulsSailor StoriesConquests of the GaulsTwo Great BattlesCaesar in GaulGaul Under the RomansThe First Christian MartyrsThe Patron Saint of FranceHow the Franks Came Into GaulThe First KingsConversion and Conquests of ClovisClotaire and His RelativesTwo Rival QueensGood King Dagobert and His SuccessorsThe Saracens CheckedThe End of the MerovingiansCharlemagne's WarsCharlemagne's Manner of LifeCharlemagne, EmperorFeudalismTroublesome SonsThe Strassburg OathThe Normans Besiege ParisThe Last of the CarolingiansThe Year One ThousandRobert's Two WivesThe Wealth of the ClergyThe First CrusadeA Love StoryThe Second CrusadeMore CrusadesThe Battle of BouvinesRegency of Blanche of CastileThe Sixth CrusadeThe Reign of Louis IXEffect of the CrusadesThe Battle of the SpursDeath of the Knights TemplarThe Beginning of the Hundred Years' WarThe Siege of CalaisThe Battle of PoitiersSeven Years of Misery (1356-1363)Th Brave Du GuesclinThe Achievements of Charles V.Charles VI.Misrule in FranceThe Disgraceful TreatyJoan to the RescueOrleans and RheimsJoan's Captivity and MartyrdomCharles's SuccessesThe Crafty King Louis XI.Beginning of Louis XI.'s ReignAchievements of Louis XI.Charles VIII.Second Italian WarDeath of Louis XII.Francis I.Rivalry of KingsAchievements of Francis I.The End of Francis I.'s ReignThe Reign of Henry II.A Young King and QueenCatherine's RegencyThe Forced WeddingThe Massacre of the HueguenotsDeath of Charles IX.An Effeminate KingThe Battle of CoutrasThe Murder of the GuisesWinning a CrownConversion of Henry IV.Henry IV.'s Second MarriageDeath of Henry IV.The Minority of Louis XIII.The Rule of FavoritesRichelieu and Louis XIII.End of Louis XIII.'s ReignThe Beginning of a Great ReignThe Wars of the FrondeDeath of MazarinVersaillesThe Iron MaskLouis XIV.'s Personal CampaignsMadame de MaintenonLater Wars of Louis XIV.The Spanish SuccessionThe Age of Louis XIV.
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