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Title: Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bidwell, W.H. (Walter Hilliard), 1798-1881
Subjects: Courts and courtiers Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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barous purpose againstsuch men; and stiU more that he should seriously persistin the resolution of executing it. But the entreaties of hisQueen saved his memory from that infamy. She threwherself on her knees before him, (see the engraving,) and,with tears in her eyes, begged the lives of these citizens.Having oljtained her request, she led them into her tent, PIIILIPPA AND THE BURGESSES OF CALAIS. 245 ordered a repast to be set before them, and, after makingthem a present of money and clothes, dismissed them msafety. Noble woman ! lUustrious Queen! worthy of undy-ing remembrance on the pages of fame ! We have desiredto perpetuate her name and the glory of her deed of richbenevolence, in our humlsle measure, by iUustrating it onthe plate, and by the record of it on these pages. Weonly add that Edward took possession of Calais, and orderedaU the inha))itants to evacuate the city, which he repeo-pled with English, m place of French, who, the king knew,regarded him as their mortal enemy.
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