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THE STRUGGLE WITH BURGUNDY. 1. Power of Burgundy.  All the troubles of France, for the last 80 years, had gone to increase the strength of the Dukes of Burgundy. THE STRUGGLE WITH BURGUNDY ONE POWER OF BURGUNDY ALL THE TROUBLES OF FRANCE FOR THE LAST EIGHTY YEARS HAD GONE TO INCREASE THE STRENGTH OF THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY
g, and much love of romance and the theory of chivalry. Pages of noble birth were bred up in castles to be first squires and then knights. There was immense formality and stateliness, the order of precedence was most minute, and pomp and display were wonderful. Strange alternations took place. One month the streets of Paris would be a scene of horrible famine, where hungry dogs, and even wolves, put an end to the miseries of starving, homeless children of slaughtered parents; another, the people would be gazing at royal banquets, lasting a whole day, with allegorical "subtleties" of jelly on the table, and pageants coming between the courses, where all the Virtues harangued in turn, or where knights delivered maidens from giants and "salvage men." In the south there was less misery and more progress. Jacques Cœur's house at Bourges is still a marvel of household architecture; and René, Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence, was an excellent painter on glass, and also a poet. CHAPTER III.  CHAPTER THREE OF HISTORY OF FRANCE THIS IS A LIBRAVOX RECORDING ALL LIBRAVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBRAVOX DOT ORG RECORDING BY ADEL POOLY HISTORY OF FRANCE BY CHARLOTTE M YOUNGER CHAPTER THREE
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