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Title: A history of France
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Kitchin, G. W. (George William), 1827-1912
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Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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w; and, as if to secure an outbreak,Louis smote the nobles in their tenderest place, their love ofsport and privileges of hunting :—rumours went abroad that hehad forbidden hunting in Dauphiny, and was about to sell theforest-rights throughout France. The King was probablymoved by a wish to assist agriculture and to relieve hispeasantry, on whom the vexations connected with the chasepressed very heavily^. He had, however, no time to carry outhis wish ; for the war was on him. The Count of Charolais hadsnatched the reins of government from the hands of the old ^ They were Peronne, Roye, Montdidier, Abbeville, S. Quentin, Amiens,and some smaller places, all lying on or near the Somme. The history ofthe lines of barrier-places between France and Flanders is an interestingand varied one. ^ Charles said later that he would give up the best duchy that he hadrather than part with these towns. Chastellain, p. 459. ^ See Michelet, tom. vi. pp. 80, 81. TO ILLUSTRATE THE WAR OF THE PUBLIC WEAL
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Ettchois Frcaxc^. Vbl.Jl.tfi face. ptl. A.D. 1464. LEAGUE OF THE PUBLIC WEAL. 39 Duke, now too feeble to resist him ; the Croys fled for theirlives. The Count of S. Pol, whose lands lay between Flandersand Picardy, kept up the communication between Charolaisand the discontented nobles of France. In vain did the Kingsummon his lords to a great assembly at Tours; they came,they heard him, they professed submission and a desire forpeace, and then went off to make them ready for war. They had already formed a great League, a more formidablePraguerie. Its nominal head was the Kings brother, Charlesof Berry, heir to the throne; with him were the Duke of Brit-tany, the Count of Armagnac, the Duke of Nemours, John ofAnjou Duke of Calabria, the Duke of Bourbon, Dunois theaged Bastard of Orleans, and mcist of the captains of the laterdays of the English war. Dammartin escaped from prison andjoined them. The real leader was the Count of Charolais; hewas also first in the field. Their confederacy

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