Memoirs of Marguerite De Valois — volume 3 [court Memoir Series]
Memoirs of Marguerite De Valois — volume 3 [court Memoir Series]
Marguerite Queen Consort of Henry Iv King of France
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, no contemptible antagonist when once aroused, attacked and overthrew the Praguerie; the cities and the country peoplewould have none of it; they preferred peace under a king's strong hand. Louis was sent down to the east to govern Dauphiny; the lessons of thecivil war were not lost on Charles; he crushed the freebooters ofChampagne, drove the English out of Pontois in 1441, moved actively upand down France, reducing anarchy, restoring order, resisting Englishattacks. In the last he was loyall...y supported by the Dauphin, who wasglad to find a field for his restless temper. He repulsed the English atDieppe, and put down the Comte d'Armagnac in the south. During the twoyears' truce with England which now followed, Charles VII. And Louis drewoff their free-lances eastward, and the Dauphin came into rude collisionwith the Swiss not far from Basel, in 1444. Some sixteen hundredmountaineers long and heroically withstood at St. Jacob the attack ofseveral thousand Frenchmen, fighting stubbornly till they all perished.
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