Identifier: storyhistoryoffr01bonn (find matches)
Title: The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 A.D., to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Bonner, John, 1828-1899. A child's history of France
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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abouther; gay gallants had ridden by her side, telling her thatshe was the most bewitching and delightful and ravishingcreature the world had ever seen. She grew up believingthis flattery, as I believe girls sometimes do even in ourtime ; and she became an imperious, self-willed young lady,so fond of pleasure and music and merriment that shethought of nothing else. When she married the heir tothe crown of France, who was only eighteen, she felt thatshe was going to lead a joyous life ; and she quite declinedto take advice from good Abbot Suger, who was a seriousman, and did not like frivolities. Not long after her marriage she got Louis into trouble.The pope appointed an archbishop of Bourges in Aquitaine.Eleanor said that Bourges was her city, and that the popeliad no right to give its archbishopric away. She orderedthat a new archbishop should be chosen, and her hus-band said she was quite right. Then the pope excommuni-cated Louis. Just before that he had excommunicated a sister of
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A MINSTREL SINGING TO THE COURT OF ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE Eleanors for marrying a man who had a wife already.To avenge her sister, Eleanor persuaded Louis to invadeChampagne, which was full of the popes friends, and inthe course of the march the kings troops set fire to thetown of Vitry. A large number of the people of Vitry—about thirteen hundred, men, women, and children—tookrefuge in the cathedral. The flames reached the building,and, the doors having got jammed, every one of the thirteenhundred was burned to death. The king, who rode np asthe church was burning, heard their dying shrieks an4 80 , (IIST-IISO groans. He was not a bad young man. He was filledwith horror at the wrong he had done. He begged pardonof God and the pope and offered to perform any penancethat might be set him. Just then came news from the Holy Land that theSaracens had gathered a great force and marched uponthe city of Edessa, where many Christians lived, and hadmassacred every one. The pope declared that

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