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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
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of thine alms, that myhusband, who lieth sick yonder indoors, doth get sustenance.The king took the bread, saying, It is rather hard bread.And he went into the cottage to see with his own eyes the sickman. When he was visiting the churches one Holy Friday, atCompiegne, as he was going that day barefoot according to hiscustom, and distributing alms to the poor whom he met, he per-ceived, on the yonder side of a miry pond which filled a portionof the street, a leper, who, not daring to come near, tried, nev-ertheless, to attract the kings attention. Louis walked throughthe pond, went up to the leper, gave him some money, took hishand and kissed it. All present, says the chronicler, crossedthemselves for admiration at seeing this holy temerity of theking, who had no fear of putting his lips to a hand that nonewould have dared to touch. In such deeds there was infinitelymore than the goodness and greatness of a kingly soul; therewas in them that profound Christian sympathy which is moved
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IT IS RATHER HARD BREAD.— Page 146. Chap. XVIII.) THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE. 147 at the sight of any human creature suffering severely in bodyor soul, and which, at such times, gives heed to no fear, shrinksfrom no pains, recoils with no disgust, and has no other thoughtbut that of offering some fraternal comfort to the body or thesoul that is suffering. He who thus felt and acted was no monk, no prince enwraptin mere devoutness and altogether given up to works andpractices of piety; he was a knight, a warrior, a politician,a true king, who attended to the duties of authority as wellas to those of charity, and who won respect from his nearestfriends as well as from strangers, whilst astonishing them atone time by his bursts of mystic piety and monastic austerity,at another by his flashes of the rulers spirit and his judiciousindependence, even towards the representatives of the faithand Church with whom he was in sympathy. He passed forthe wisest man in all his council. In difficult ma

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