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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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began to shout, 4 Comedown, and preach not to us from such a height; we would haveaccount and reckoning of the great treasure of Flanders whichyou have too long had under control without rendering an ac-count, which it appertaineth not to any officer to do. WhenArtevelde saw that they would not cool down, and would notrestrain themselves, he closed the window, and bethought himthat he would escape by the back, and get him gone to a churchadjoining his hostel; but his hostel was already burst open andbroken into behind, and there were more than four hundredpersons who were all anxious to seize him. At last he wascaught amongst them, and killed on the spot without mercy. Aweaver, called Thomas Denis, gave him his death-blow. Thiswas the end of Artevelde, who in his time was so great a masterin Flanders. Poor folk exalted him at first, and wicked folkslew him at the last. It was a great loss for King Edward. Under Van Arteveldesbold dominance, and in consequence of his alliance with Eng-
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JAMES VAN ARTEVELDE. — Pase 206. Chap. XX.) THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR. 297 land, the warlike renown of Flanders had made some noise inEurope, to such an extent that Petrarch exclaimed, List to thesounds, still indistinct, that reach us from the world of theWest; Flanders is plunged in ceaseless war; all the countrystretching from the restless Ocean to the Latin Alps is rushingforth to arms. Would to Heaven that there might come to ussome gleams of salvation from thence ! O Italy, poor father-land, thou prey to sufferings without relief, thou who wast wontwith thy deeds of arms to trouble the peace of the world, nowart thou motionless when the fate of the world hangs on thechances of battle ! The Flemings spared no effort to re-assurethe King of England. Their envoys went to Westminster todeplore the murder of Van Artevelde, and tried to persuadeEdward that his policy would be perpetuated throughout theircities, and to such purpose, says Froissart, that in the endthe king was fairly cont

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