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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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ent aversion felt by most of his order for the institutionof communes. He saw in this institution a sort of necessitybeneath which it would be inevitable sooner or later, willynilly, to bow, and he thought it was better to surrender to thewishes of the citizens than to shed blood in order to postponefor a while an unavoidable revolution. In 1098 he was electedBishop of Noyon. He found this town in the same state inwhich he had seen that of Cambrai. The burghers were atdaily loggerheads with the metropolitan clergy, and the regis-ters of the Church contained a host of documents entitledPeace made between us and the burghers of Noyon. Butno reconciliation was lasting; the truce was soon broken,either by the clergy or by the citizens, who were the moretouchy in that they had less security for their persons andtheir property. The new bishop thought that the establishmentof a commune sworn to by both the rival parties might becomea sort of compact of alliance between them, and he set about
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INSURRECTION IN FAVOR OF THE COMMUNE AT CAMBRAI. — Page 214. Chap. XIX.) THE COMMUNES AND THIRD ESTATE. 215 realizing this noble idea before the word commune had servedat Noyon as the rallying cry of popular insurrection. Of hisown mere motion he convoked in assembly all the inhabitantsof the town, clergy, knights, traders, and craftsmen. He pre-sented them with a charter which constituted the body ofburghers an association forever under magistrates called jury-men, like those of Cambrai. « Whosoever, said the charter,shall desire to enter this commune shall not be able to bereceived as a member of it by a single individual, but only inthe presence of the jurymen. The sum of money he shall thengive shall be employed for the benefit of the town, and not forthe private advantage of any one whatsoever. If the communebe outraged, all those who have sworn to it shall be bound tomarch to its defence, and none shall be empowered to remainat home unless he be infirm or sick, or so poor tha

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