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Title: A short history of France from Caesar's invasion to the Battle of Waterloo
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances), 1857-1944
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Publisher: London, Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aved her troops across the Loire,bidding them charge the invader with all their mightand main, her instinct affirmed the road to victory forany French army ; that is to say, attack, fury, sacrificeof self and absolute faith in a leader. The spell of terror and hopelessness which had hunglike a fog over France was dispelled by the innocentmagic of her courage and faith : on the 8th of May 1429Orleans was delivered ; a little later the King ofBourges was crowned at Rheims and acclaimed by atriumphant army King of France. The English causewas lost; but the English are obstinate : it tookanother twenty years to drive them into the sea.Fresh troops poured across the Channel: on the 23rd ofMay 1430 the Maid herself was taken prisoner at Com-piegne. We know how she was carried to Rouen,tried there by our countrymen for a witch, handed overto the tender mercies of the Church as a heretic, andhow, on the 30th of May one year later (and two yearssince that happy May when she had entered Orleans
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DELIVERANCE 97 delivered), the Maid was taken to the Old Market-place at Rouen, her shaven head crowned with a papercap on which was written : Heretic, Apostate,Idolater, tied weeping to a stake, and burned alive,and the very ashes of her body thrown into the Seine.Like Platos Just Man, reviled, thrown into prison,scourged, blinded, and put to death, yet still enviable,salutary to the State, Joan, on her Calvary, ensuredthe salvation of France. In i <.%$ the Duke of Bur-gundy concluded a treaty with King Charles ; soonafter, Paris rose suddenly against its English garrisonand declared for France ; twelve years later, Rouenfollowed suit ; in 1450, the loss of Cherbourg leftEngland not one foot of Norman ground, and thefollowing year deprived her of her last hold on theSouth. By 1453, tne Hundred Years War was atan end ; Calais alone remained to the invaders ofall their French possessions—Calais, not Normandy,Maine, Anjou, Paris, Bordeaux, with that land of wineand corn, rich Aquit

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