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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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hen Richelieu was a little boy.While France was devoted to religious wars, nothing elsewas thought of. When peace came, through the Edict ofNantes, poets, philosophers, and men of science arose.Richelieu encouraged them all. He founded the French Academy, which is in full vigorto-day, and has counted among its members the greatestwriters in France. He established the Garden of Plants,which contains to-day, as it has always contained, the largestcollection of beasts, birds, reptiles, and plants in the world.He rebuilt the Sorbonne, the great school where the scienceof the human mind was studied. He founded the RoyalPrinting-ofiice. He encouraged the Society of the HotelRambouillet, which counted among its members all whowere witty and wise in France. Under him Corneille,Ronsard, and Malherbe began to create French poetrj^,and Pascal and Descartes taught the French how to writeprose. Before the time of Richelieu, the deepest thinkersof the day, such as Erasmus and Bacon, waote in Latin.
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THE HOLY CHAPEL AT PARIS Montaigne, Calvin, Rabelais, Amyot, and other Huguenotsset the example of writing in French. Richelieu encour-aged the practice, and it was under him that the Frenchlanguage first became what it is—a language v/hich youwill love the more the better you understand it. When you weigh the cardinal in the balance, you mustoffset his treason to liberty with his great services to thecause of human knowledge, Chapter XXXY CARDINAL MAZARIN A.D. 1613-1651 At the death of Louis the Thirteenth, his widow, Anneof Austria, became regent, and chose for her chief coun-sellor the Italian Cardinal Mazarin, rather to the chagrinof the proud French nobles, the Duke of Orleans and thePrince of Conde. She took her little son, who was a fair-haired, handsome boy of four, to the Parliament of Paris,and the child, standing on a stool, bowed his little head,and gave the members of the parliament his little hand tokiss. At first all went smoothly, but before long disputesarose betwee

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