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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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ntions, subjections, services, anddues whereby we may have been bounden towards him. This meant war. And it was prompt and sharp on the partof the King of France, slow and dull on the part of the Kingof England, who was always more bent upon the conquest ofScotland than upon defending, on the Continent, his ally, theCount of Flanders. In June, 1297, Philip the Handsome, inperson, laid siege to Lille, and, on the 13th of August, Robert,Count of Artois, at the head of the French chivalry, gained atFurnes, over the Flemish army, a victory which decided the cam-paign. Lille capitulated. The English re-enforcements arrivedtoo late, and served no other purpose but that of inducing Philipto grant the Flemings a truce for two years. A fruitless attemptwas made, with the help of Pope Boniface VIII., to change thetruce into a lasting peace. The very day on which it expired,Charles, Count of Valois, and brother of Philip the Handsome,entered Flanders with a powerful army, surprised Douai, passed
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9 to I «H Chap. XVIIL) THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE. 165 through Bruges, and, on arriving at Ghent, gave a reception toits magistrates, who came and offered him the keys. Theburghers of the towns of Flanders, sajrs a chronicler of theage, were all bribed by gifts or promises from the King ofFrance, who would never have dared to invade their frontiers,had they been faithful to their count. Guy de Dampierre,hopelessly beaten, repaired, with two of his sons, and fifty-oneof his faithful knights, to the camp of the Count of Valois, whogave him a kind reception, and urged him to trust himself tothe kings generosity, promising at the same time to support hissuit. Guy set out for Paris with all his retinue. On approach-ing the City-palace which was the usual residence of the kings,he espied at one of the windows Queen Joan of Navarre, whotook a supercilious pleasure in gazing upon the humiliation ofthe victim of defeat. Guy drooped his head, and gave no greet-ing. When he was close to the steps o

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