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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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so contrary to the promises they had but lately made tothe dauphin. Charles the Bad used his deliverance like a skil-ful workmai\; the very day after his arrival in Paris he mounteda platform set against the walls of St. Germains abbey, andthere, in the presence of more than ten thousand persons,burgesses and populace, he delivered a long speech, seasonedwith much venom, says a chronicler of the time. Afterhaving denounced the wrongs which he had been made to en-dure, he said, for eighteen months past, he declared that hewould live and die in defence of the kingdom of France, givingit to be understood that if he were minded to claim the crown,he would soon show by the laws of right and wrong that hewas nearer to it than the King of England was. He wasinsinuating, eloquent, and an adept in the art of making truthsubserve the cause of falsehood. The people were moved byhis speech. The dauphin was obliged not only to put up withthe release and the triumph of his most dangerous enemy, but
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STEPHEN MARCEL. — Pase 342. Chap. XXI.) THE STATES-GENERAL. 343 to make an outward show of reconciliation with him, and to un-dertake not only to give him back the castles confiscated after hisarrest, but to act towards him as a good brother towards hisbrother. These were the exact words made use of in the dau-phins name, and without having asked his pleasure about it,by Robert Lecocq, Bishop of Laon, who himself also had returnedfrom his diocese to Paris at the time of the recall of the estates.The consequences of this position were not slow to exhibitthemselves. Whilst the King of Navarre was re-entering Parisand the dauphin submitting to the necessity of a reconciliationwith him, several of the deputies who had but lately returnedto the states-general, and amongst others nearly all those fromChampagne and Burgundy, were going away again, being un-willing either to witness the triumphal re-entry of Charles theBad or to share the responsibility for such acts as they foresaw.Before

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