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Council of Clermont; French Nobles assume the Cross, 1095

March of the Crusaders

Capture of Antioch, 1098

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CHAP. V.

Difference between Angevin and Capetian

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The King's Dispute with Flanders

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The English and French Monarchs assume the Cross, 1188

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Philip's return to France

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The French Court of Peers

State of Languedoc

Nature of Albigensian Heresy

The Waldenses

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PREFACE.

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SOME five-and-twenty years ago, the Author of these present volumes wrote for Dr. Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopædia" a Compendious History of France. The space there assigned for the work did not render the careful consultation of original sources requisite. has ever since been his aim, and more or less the object of his study and thought, to write a History of France from the ample original materials which the care of the French Government and learned bodies have collected, and which so many of their able historic philosophers have elucidated. The First Volume of a History of France, thus composed, is now presented to the public.

Although no original narrative or document of these times has been left unconsulted by the Author, he has still refrained from multiplying references at the bottom of each page. The materials of French history, or at least of its earlier centuries, have been formed into collections, for the most part in chronological order. Each volume is amply furnished with indexes and tables of contents. And nothing can be more easy than for the student to refer to any epoch, test any opinion, or

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