The Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton: Containing the Histories of Louis XI and Charles VIII, Kings of France and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Volume 1G. Bell, 1906 |
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... continued making him large promises , and actually giving him money and estates which he knew would please him . " Commines , who was moreover allured by many great and truly royal qualities of Louis XI . , allowed himself to be seduced ...
... continued making him large promises , and actually giving him money and estates which he knew would please him . " Commines , who was moreover allured by many great and truly royal qualities of Louis XI . , allowed himself to be seduced ...
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... continued to shower down upon him . It would be tedious to enumerate them here ; we will only mention that he was invested with the office of Seneschal of Poitou , in November , 1476 , and with the captaincy of the Castle of Poitiers in ...
... continued to shower down upon him . It would be tedious to enumerate them here ; we will only mention that he was invested with the office of Seneschal of Poitou , in November , 1476 , and with the captaincy of the Castle of Poitiers in ...
Page xxvi
... continued his journey to Florence , where he arrived towards the end of April , 1478 . A formidable plot , which had been sternly repressed , had just deluged that city with blood : and Commines has given a graphic account of it in his ...
... continued his journey to Florence , where he arrived towards the end of April , 1478 . A formidable plot , which had been sternly repressed , had just deluged that city with blood : and Commines has given a graphic account of it in his ...
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... continued until the monarch's death ; but before we proceed any further , we must go back a little to relate the most painful part of Commines ' personal history . We have already described the iniquitous and violent proceedings by ...
... continued until the monarch's death ; but before we proceed any further , we must go back a little to relate the most painful part of Commines ' personal history . We have already described the iniquitous and violent proceedings by ...
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... continued to travel about the country . Commines , on his return from his embassy , joined him at Beaujeu : and he was struck by the ravages which disease had wrought in the person of the prince , whose last hour , he felt , was at hand ...
... continued to travel about the country . Commines , on his return from his embassy , joined him at Beaujeu : and he was struck by the ravages which disease had wrought in the person of the prince , whose last hour , he felt , was at hand ...
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