The Reign of Charles V Vol. 2
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1 68 REIGN OF THE eight months with the governess of the Netherlands. 's Francis himself, with the same unpardonable inatten- tion of which he had formerly been guilty and for which he had suffered so severely, neglected to make proper remittances to Lautrec for the support of his army.*'' These unexpected events retarded the progress of the French, discouraging both the general and his troops ; but the revolt of Andrew Doria proved a fatal blow to all their measures. That gallant officer,... the citizen of a republic, and trained up from his infancy in the sea- service, retained the spirit of independence natural to the former, together with the plain, liberal manners peculiar to the latter. A stranger to the arts of sub- mission or flattery necessary in courts, but conscious, at the same time, of his own merit and importance, he always offered his advice with freedom, and often pre- ferred his complaints and remonstrances with boldness.
The French ministers, unaccustomed to such liberties, determined to ruin a man who treated them with so little deference ; and though Francis himself had a just sense of Doria' s services, as well as a high esteem for his character, the courtiers, by continually repre- senting him as a man haughty, intractable, and more solicitous to aggrandize himself than to promote the interests of France, gradually undermined the founda- tions of his credit and filled the king's mind with sus- picion and distrust.
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491.
1 68 REIGN OF THE eight months with the governess of the Netherlands. 's Francis himself, with the same unpardonable inatten- tion of which he had formerly been guilty and for which he had suffered so severely, neglected to make proper remittances to Lautrec for the support of his army.*'' These unexpected events retarded the progress of the French, discouraging both the general and his troops ; but the revolt of Andrew Doria proved a fatal blow to all their measures. That gallant officer,... the citizen of a republic, and trained up from his infancy in the sea- service, retained the spirit of independence natural to the former, together with the plain, liberal manners peculiar to the latter. A stranger to the arts of sub- mission or flattery necessary in courts, but conscious, at the same time, of his own merit and importance, he always offered his advice with freedom, and often pre- ferred his complaints and remonstrances with boldness.
The French ministers, unaccustomed to such liberties, determined to ruin a man who treated them with so little deference ; and though Francis himself had a just sense of Doria' s services, as well as a high esteem for his character, the courtiers, by continually repre- senting him as a man haughty, intractable, and more solicitous to aggrandize himself than to promote the interests of France, gradually undermined the founda- tions of his credit and filled the king's mind with sus- picion and distrust.
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