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Identifier: popularhistoryof02guiz (find matches)
Title: A popular history of France : from the earliest times
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Guizot, M. (François), 1787-1874
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Publisher: Boston : D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat
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heestates were holding their sittings, and there he received theirrepresentations. They demanded of him that he shoulddeprive of their offices such of the kings councillors as theyshould point out, have them arrested, and confiscate all theirproperty. Twenty-two men of note, the chancellor, the premierpresident of the Parliament, the kings stewards, and severalofficers in the household of the dauphin himself, were thuspointed out. They were accused of having taken part totheir own profit in all the abuses for which the governmentwas reproached, and of having concealed from the king thetrue state of things and the misery of the people. The com-missioners elected by the estates were to take proceedingsagainst them: if they were found guilty, they were to bepunished ; and if they were innocent, they were at the veryleast to forfeit their offices and their property, on account oftheir bad counsels and their bad administration. The chronicles of the time are not agreed as to these last de-
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CHARLES THE BAD IN PRISON. — Page 335. Chap. XXL) THE STATES-GENERAL. 335 mands. We have, as regards the events of this period, twocontemporary witnesses, both full of detail, intelligence, andanimation in their narratives, namely, Froissart and the con-tinuer of William of Nangis Latin Chronicle. Froissart is ingeneral favorable to kings and princes; the anonymous chron-icler, on the contrary, has a somewhat passionate bias towardsthe popular party. Probably both of them are often given toexaggeration in their assertions and impressions; but, takinginto account none but undisputed facts, it is evident that theclaims of the states-general, though they were, for the mostpart, legitimate enough at bottom, by reason of the number,gravity, and frequent recurrence of abuses, were excessive andviolent, and produced the effect of complete suspension in theregular course of government and justice. The dauphin,Charles, was a young man, of a naturally sound and collectedmind, but without expe

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