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Title: A popular history of France : from the earliest times
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Guizot, M. (François), 1787-1874
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Publisher: Boston : D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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to Poitiers; but, four days before Christmas, when thecourt of Count Alphonso had received all its guests, the Countof La Marche, mounted on his war-horse, with his wife on thecrupper behind him, and escorted by his men-at-arms alsomounted, cross-bow in hand and in readiness for battle, wasseen advancing to the princes presence. Every one was on thetiptoe of expectation as to what would come next. Thenthe Count of La Marche addressed himself in a loud voice tothe Count of Poitiers, saying, I might have thought, in amoment of forgetfulness and weakness, to render thee homage ;but now I swear to thee, with a resolute heart, that I willnever be thy liegeman; thou dost unjustly dub thyself mylord; thou didst shamefully filch tjiis countship from my step-son, Earl Richard, whilst he was faithfully fighting for Godin the Holy Land, and was delivering our captives by his dis-cretion and his compassion. After this insolent declaration,the Count of La Marche violently thrust aside, by means of
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DE LA MARCHES PARTING INSULT. —Page 12(5. Chap. XVIIL) THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE. 127 his men-at-arms, all those who barred his passage ; hasted, by-way of parting insult, to fire the lodging appointed for himby Count Alphonso, and, followed by his people, left Poitiersat a gallop. (Histoire de Saint Louis, by M. Felix Faure, t. i.p. 347.) This meant war; and it burst out at the commencement ofthe following spring. It found Louis equally well preparedfor it and determined to carry it through. But in him prudenceand justice were as little to seek as resolution ; he respectedpublic opinion, and he wished to have the approval of thosewhom he called upon to commit themselves for him and withhim. He summoned the crowns vassals to a parliament; and,44 What think you, he asked them, should be done to avassal who would fain hold land without owning a lord, andwho goeth against the fealty and homage due from him andhis predecessors? The answer was, that the lord ought inthat case to take back t

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