Ascanio, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The author depicts the king rather as be ap peared to the world before what has been called the legend of the Roi Chevalier, - that is to say, the long prevailing idea that Francois I. Was the most chivalrous monarch who ever sat upon a European throne, - had been modified by the inde pendent researches of those who have not feared to go behind the writings of the old and well tutored chroniclers whose works have formed the basis of most modern histories, chroniclers who seem to have been guided by Cardinal Riche lieu's famous remark to an aspiring historian, apropos of certain animadversions upon the char acter of Louis XL, that it is treason to discuss the actions of a king who has been dead only two centuries.

The result of these researches is thus summed up by Miss Pardoe in the same Preface.

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Miss Pardoe (in the Pref ace to the Court and Reign of Francis I. ), did the reign of any European sovereign present so many and such varying phases. A contest for empire, a captive monarch, a female regency, and a religious war; the poisoned bowl and the burning pile alike doing their work of death amid scenes of uncalculating splendor and unbridled dissipation ;the atrocities of bigotry and intolerance, blent with the most unblushing licentiousness and the most undisguised profligacy; such are the materials offered to the student by the times of Francis I. The period thus characterized is that in which the scene of the present romance is laid, and although the plot is mainly concerned with the for tunes of others than subjects of the Roi Chevalier, we are treated to a succession of vivid pictures of life and manners at the French court and in the French
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