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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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speedy compliance with their demands.. The dauphin persisted
in his policy of delay. He was threatened with a public and
solemn session, at which all the questions should be brought
before the people, and which was fixed for the 3d of November.
Great was the excitement in Paris ; and the people showed ad
isposition to support the estates at any price. On the 2d of
November, the dauphin summoned at the Louvre a meeting of
his councillors and of the principal deputies ; and there he an
-nounced that he was obliged to set out for Metz, where he was
going to follow up the negotiations entered into with the Em-
peror Charles IV. and Pope Innocent VI. for the sake of restor-
ing peace between France and England. He added that the
deputies, on returning for a while to their provinces, should get
themselves enlightened as to the real state of affairs, and that
he would not fail to recall them so soon as he had any important
news to tell them, and any assistance to request of them.
It was not without serious grounds that the dauphin attached
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THE LOUVRE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. — Page 336.

Chap. XXL] THE STATES-GENERAL. 337

so much importance to gaining time. When, in the preceding
month of October, he had summoned to Paris the states-general
of Langue d'Oïl, he had likewise convoked at Toulouse those of
Langue d'oc, and he was informed that the latter had not only
just voted a levy of fifty thousand men-at-arms, with an ad-
equate subsidy, but that, in order to show their royalist senti-
ments, they had decreed a sort of public mourning, to last for a
year, if King John were not released from his captivity. The
dauphin's idea was to summon other provincial assemblies, from
which he hoped for similar manifestations. It was said, more-
over, that several deputies, already gone from Paris, had been
ill received in their towns, at Soissons amongst others, on
account of their excessive claims, and their insulting language
towards all the king's councillors. Under such flattering au-
spices the dauphin set out, according to the announcement he

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