Identifier: storyhistoryoffr01bonn (find matches)
Title: The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 A.D., to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Bonner, John, 1828-1899. A child's history of France
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nursed him expectedthat he would demand ransom, as the custom of that dsiywas. So, falling on her knees before him, with many tearsand thanks for his gentle behavior, she offered him twenty-five hundred gold ducats in a steel box. But he onlylaughed and bade her fetch her daughters. The girlscame in, pale and trembling, for those were rough times.The eldest said, My lord, we two poor girls, whom you have done thehonor to guard, are come to take leave of you, to thankyou, and, having nothing else in their power, to say thatthey will be forever bound to pray for you. To which he answered, It is for me to thank you. Fighting-men are not ladenwith pretty things to present to ladies. But your ladymother has given me two thousand five hundred ducats :here is one thousand for each of you, and five hundredwhich I entreat your mother to give to the poor. Only Ibeg you all to pray God for me. And with that he poured the gold into their aprons. When his wound closed he returned tg the array and
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CHEVALIER BAYAKD fought wherever the enemy was met. He was the bravestsoldier the king had, and he was generous and merciful.When he found that the people of a village had been driv-en into a cave, and two soldiers of his army had piled hay,straw, and wood at the mouth of the cave and stifled them,he caught the rascals, one of whom had but one ear whilethe other had none at all, and hanged them at the entrance.He met his de^th like a soldier, JJe was shot whil§ 166 (1498-1515 crossing the Alps. When he felt the Avound, he knew thatit was mortal. He bade his men set him ao;ainst a tree,with his face to the enemy. He confessed to a priest; then,to one who pitied him, he said, I need no pity. I die thedeath of a man of honor. And so indeed he did. But all his honor and all his valor could not help theFrench to conquer Italy. After the bad Pope Alexanderthe Sixth there came a fighting pope, Julius the Second,who, when he was eighty years old, went out in his papalrobes and pointed the ca

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