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History Philosophically Illustrated, 3; From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution
History Philosophically Illustrated 3 From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution Author:George Miller General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: H. G. Bohn Subjects: History / Europe / General History / Military / World War II History / World History / Medieval History / Civilization Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origina... more »l. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Of the history of France, from the commencement of the reign of Francis I. in the year 1515 to that of the reign of Louis XIII. in the year 1610. Francis I. king in the year 1515 -- Civil wars begun, 1562 -- Massacre of saint Bartholomew's day, 1572 -- Henry III. assassinated and Henry IV. king, 1589 -- Civil wars ended and Edict of Nantea, 1598 -- Henry IV. assassinated, 1610. The due arrangement of a system of federative policy appears to have required, that the house of Austria should from contingent causes acquire a pre-eminence, which should for a time overbear the intrinsic greatness of France. By the lax constitution of the empire alone could the principles of a federative policy be propagated over Europe ; and the maritime dominion, which the Spanish branch of the Austrian family acquired by distant discovery, drew forth the maritime energies of the Dutch and of the English, and thus prepared the enginery of a succeeding period. France, first encircled by the widely extended territories of the house of Austria, and then pressed more especially by the power of Spain, was reduced to a temporary inferiority, very unlike to the grandeur, by which it had been distinguished. To Spain indeed, when separated from Germany, it might have been a formidable antagonist, if religious dissensions had not paralysed its power. It is certain that only the extreme exhaustion, which they had cause...« less