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Title: The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 A.D., to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Bonner, John, 1828-1899. A child's history of France
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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because he refusedto take part in them. Their appearance was strange tothe Parisians. The men shaved their chins, cut their hairshort, and wore boots which turned up at the toes; theyaffected to be dandies, and sneered at the rough mannersof the Northern friends of Robert. The king would havesent them home, but the queen, whom Robert called myConstance, had a way of flying into rages, when everyone, including her husband, made haste to get out of herreach; and so her Southern court remained to the end. She was so violent a woman that when two priests wereaccused of being heretics, because they differed from theirbishops on points of doctrine, and were sentenced to beburned at the stake, she insisted on going out of her pal-ace to see them pass by. One of them was known to thequeen; at sight of him she flew into a rage, and, seizingan iron-tipped stick from the hand of an attendant, sheknocked the poor priests eye out with a blow. Toward the end of his reign, the brutal temper of this
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QUEEN CONSTANCE STRIKES OUT A PEIESTS EYE woman and the growing impudence of the feudal lordsmade life bitter to the king. He could do nothing forhimself, for the queen ruled him as if he had been a child;and he could do little for the people, for the feudal lordswould have no interference with their vassals. So per-haps he was not sorry when the end came, after he hadreigned over France for thirty-five years. Chapter X ROBERT THE DEVILA.D.1031-1060 The most powerful feudal lord in France at this timewas the Duke of Normandy. His name was Robert. Hewas the second son of his father, and therefore would notnaturally have succeeded to the duchy; but he invited hiselder brother and several other friends to a banquet, andnext morning they were all found dead in their beds. Forthis dreadful deed the Normans gave him the name ofRobert the Devil. His story inspired one of the greatestcomposers of modern times with the idea of an opera whichI dare say you have seen. When King Robert of France

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