Old Touraine the Life And History of the Famous Chateaux of France volume 1
Old Touraine the Life And History of the Famous Chateaux of France volume 1
Theodore Andrea Cook
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For some time this unhappy town had enjoyed " a hazardous and agonised attempt at liberty, " while Fntragues and the l^'rench garrison which came in willi Charles \T 1 l. 's arm)- refused to leave the citadel and abandon Pisa to I'lorcncc, her bitter enemy ; and now the P^rcnch envoys, who had been sent uilh difficult words 198 OLD TOURAIXE of nefTotiation conccrninc^ the detested Florentine suprcniac}', were suri'dUiuK-d l)y " ii\'c or six luni- drcd " young j;irls dressed in white, w ilh two ...a_q;efl dames to lead them, and singing swcetl)', ' dc\ant I'iinage de Xotrc-Dame commenccrent les pucelles a ehanter taiU piteusement, et de voix si tres lamentables que la n'y eut h'rancais ni autre a qui du plus profond endroit du coeur jusqu'aux \-eux ne montassent les chaudes larmes. " With their tears and blandishments they so won the hearts of the rough soldiers that fighting became for the time impossible for mutual admiration ; the influence of women that was to exercise so great a power in I'^rance for the next centur\- had begun, and had introduced one more disturbing clement into the already confused system of Italian politics.
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