{"product_id":"2940015747188","title":"A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3","description":"Volume III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXIII.  THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR.--CHARLES VI. AND THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXIV.   THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR.--CHARLES VII. AND JOAN OF ARC.  (1422-\u003cbr\u003e1461.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXV.    LOUIS XI.  (1461-1483.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXVI.   THE WARS OF ITALY.--CHARLES VIII.  (1483-1498.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXVII.  THE WARS IN ITALY.--LOUIS XII.  (1498-1515.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF STEEL ENGRAVINGS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: HOTEL DE VILLE BOURGES----FRONTISPIECE]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF JOAN OF ARC----85]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: CHINON CASTLE----95]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: JOAN ENTERING ORLEANS----104]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: CHARLES VIII.----263]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: CASTLE OF AMBOISE----308]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: STATES GENERAL AT TOURS----329]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWOOD-CUTS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: The Procession went over the Gates----16]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: '\"Thou art betrayed.\"'----26]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Murder of the Duke of Orleans----38]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Death of Valentine de Milan----45]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: John the Fearless----51]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Already distressed----57]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Charles VI. and Odette----71]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: '\"Into the River!\"'----77]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: The Body of Charles VI. lying in State----84]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: The Shepherdess of Domremy----90]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Joan of Arc in her Father's Garden----91]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Herself drew out the Arrow----109]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Joan examined in Prison----128]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Philip the Good of Burgundy----144]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: The Constable Made his Entry on Horseback----150]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Jacques Coeur----165]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Jacques Coeur's Hostel at Bourges----169]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Agnes Sorel----175]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Louis XI. and Burgesses waiting for News----193]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Charles the Rash----203]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Louis XI. and Charles the Rash at Peronne----209]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Philip de Commynes----217]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: The Corpse of Charles the Rash Discovered----236]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: The Balue Cage----245]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Louis XI. at his Devotions----255]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Views of the Castle of Plessis-les-Tours----258]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Louis XI----260]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Anne de Beaujeu----264]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Meeting between Charles VIII, and Anne of Brittany----282]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Charles VIII. crossing the Alps----285]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Charles VIII----293]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Battle of Fornovo----303]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Louis XII----310]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Bayard----315]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Battle of Agnadello----334]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Cardinal d'Amboise----347]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Chaumont d'Amboise----350]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Bayard's Farewell----358]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: Gaston de Foix----364]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIII.----THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR--CHARLES VI. AND THE DUKES OF\u003cbr\u003eBURGUNDY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSully, in his Memoirs, characterizes the reign of Charles VI. as \"that\u003cbr\u003ereign so pregnant of sinister events, the grave of good laws and good\u003cbr\u003emorals in France.\"  There is no exaggeration in these words; the\u003cbr\u003esixteenth century with its St. Bartholomew and The League, the eighteenth\u003cbr\u003ewith its reign of terror, and the nineteenth with its Commune of Paris,\u003cbr\u003econtain scarcely any events so sinister as those of which France was, in\u003cbr\u003ethe reign of Charles VI., from 1380 to 1422, the theatre and the victim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScarcely was Charles V. laid on his bier when it was seen what a loss he\u003cbr\u003ewas and would be to his kingdom.  Discord arose in the king's own family.\u003cbr\u003eIn order to shorten the ever critical period of minority, Charles V. had\u003cbr\u003efixed the king's majority at the age of fourteen.  His son, Charles VI.,\u003cbr\u003ewas not yet twelve, and so had two years to remain under the guardianship\u003cbr\u003eof his four uncles, the Dukes of Anjou, Berry, Burgundy, and Bourbon; but\u003cbr\u003ethe last being only a maternal uncle and a less puissant prince than his\u003cbr\u003epaternal uncles, it was between the other three that strife began for\u003cbr\u003etemporary possession of the kingly power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough very unequal in talent and in force of character, they were all\u003cbr\u003ethree ambitious and jealous.  The eldest, the Duke of Anjou, who was\u003cbr\u003eenergetic, despotic, and stubborn, aspired to dominion in France for the\u003cbr\u003esake of making French influence subserve the conquest of the kingdom of\u003cbr\u003eNaples, the object of his ambition.  The Duke of Berry was a mediocre,\u003cbr\u003erestless, prodigal, and grasping prince.  The Duke of Burgundy, Philip\u003cbr\u003ethe Bold, the most able and the most powerful of the three, had been the\u003cbr\u003efavorite, first of his father, King John, and then of his brother,","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146412048624,"sku":"2940015747188","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015747188","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}