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Title: The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 A.D., to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Bonner, John, 1828-1899. A child's history of France
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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for a clever card-player from Spain ; for a
horse for the royal cook, so that he could always be on
hand for the king's dinner ; for the beautiful ladies of the
court, with whom Francis spent his time and on whom he
lavished presents. He did not care much for his hungry
people, but he cared a great deal for show. He wrote pret-
ty verses himself, and he helped others who wrote, as well
as those who built fine buildings or carved fine statues.
It is the fashion to call his era the period of the Renaissance,
which means that art and letters were then born again ;
and perhaps he had something to do with the birth. But
it was much more largely due to a waking of the public
mind from a sleep which had lasted a thousand years,
and that waking was seen more plainly in religion than
in anything else.
For a long time good Christians had been dissatisfied
with the Church. They hated to see the popes mixing in
politics and contending with kings ; and they were not
pleased with the tax which the popes levied on Christian
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THE BURNING OP HERETICS
countries in the shape of Peter's pence, or with the raising
of money by the sale of pardons for sins past or to come.
In every country brave and intelligent priests had risen
to protest, and to say that these things were wrong. But
no two of them agreed what should be done, and the Church
was able to break down each separately, either by burn-
ing him as a heretic, or by keeping him in prison, or in
some other way.

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Thus, John Huss, of Prague, protested, was caught,
tried, and burned at Constance. Girolamo Savonarola, of
Florence, was seized and was hanged and burned. John
Wyckliffe, of England, was arrested and tried ; the priests
were afraid to execute him because when they proposed
to do so an angry light came into the eye of the sturdy
English people. John Calvin was driven out of France.
But bold Martin Luther, in Germany, set the pope at de-
fiance ; and when the emperor called on him to take back
what he had said, he defied him too. And the emperor,
looking at the crowds who stood at Luther's back, and
who, as they listened to his brave words, had a way of
fingering their sword-hilts, thought to himself that
this was a good man to let alone. That is how the Reforma-
tion, as it is called, took root in Germany.

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