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 |
FRANCE.
CHAPTER I.
THE EARLIER KINGS OF FRANCE.
1. France.—The country we now know as France is the tract of landshut in by the British Channel, the Bay of Biscay, the Pyrenees, theMediterranean, and the Alps. But this country only gained the name ofFrance by degrees. In the earliest days of which we have any account, itwas peopled by the Celts, and it was known to the Romans as part of alarger country which bore the name of Gaul. After all of it, save thenorth-western moorlands, or what we now cal
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