The Atlantic Monthly, volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
The Atlantic Monthly, volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
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" There was much material prosperityin Normandy at the close of the tenth century, or less than a hundredyears after Rollo had established himself and his followers on Frenchsoil. The burgher class throve amazingly, and were the envy of all whoknew their condition; and their military skill and valor were as famousas their success in the industrial arts, and their wealth, which was itsconsequence. Free they were, or they would have been neither rich norvaliant. The peasantry, too, were a superio...r people, who enjoyed muchfreedom, and who exhibited their bravery whenever there was call for itsexhibition, --facts which show that they must have been well governed, and which tend to elevate our conception of the merits of their rulers. There was no such thing as a caste of nobles in Normandy for very manyyears after that country passed into the hands of the Northmen. Abouttwo generations after the death of Rollo, Richard le Bon, one of themost popular of his descendants, set up the standard of exclusion, andcreated that Norman nobility of which the world has heard so much foreight hundred years.
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