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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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up the Seine and threatened Paris itself.The French king, either Charles the Bald or his grandson Louis HL, boughthim off by making him Count of Chartres, and conferring on him extensivelands, where he and such of his Northmen as elected still to follow his fortunes,settled down to become Frenchmen. Other Norse chieftains followed Hastings example. Greatest of these wasRollo, or Rolf the Ganger, who founded Normandy. He is reported to have beenso tall that he could not ride the little Northland ponies, whence his name ofthe Ganger (goer or walker). Rolf was of high rank in Norway, but had been exiled because he refused toconfine his piracies to foreign lands. During his early expeditions, he hadvisited England and learned from its great king, Alfred, the values of civiliza-tion. He came to France, therefore, not as a mere destroying barbarian, butwith clearly marked ideas of permanent conquest and government. In the year 884, he sailed up the Seine with perhaps ten thousand followers,
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LUDWIGS EMBASSY INTERRUPTS THE WEDDING OF CHARLES THE BALD France—Rolf Besieges Paris 787 captured the important city of Rouen, and repairing its walls made of it a per-manent fortress, the Northmens capital for over three hundred years. Hethen moved on to attack Paris. Legend says that his own countryman, Hast-ino-, now Count of Chartres, was sent to negotiate with him. When Hastingasked for the lord of the newcomers, Rolf answered that they were all equal, alllords, and were come to be lords of the land. Have ye heard of Hasting, suggested the envoy proudly, who came herewith many ships and made a desert of much of the kingdom of the Franks ? Ay, answered Rolf scornfully, Hasting began well, but he ended ill.And he sent the Count back with his errand of peace unaccomplished. Rolf defeated a French army and then with another chief, Siegfried, be-sieged Paris. We are told they came with seven hundred ships, which coveredthe Seine for leagues, and bore thirty thousand men. The siege

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