Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 372
ries, moreover, France had been the great hearth ofthe Occident. Through the Normans, it had con-quered Sicily and England; under the ingenuous andpowerfully stimulating pretext of delivering the Holy THE EXPANSION OF THE FRENCH IDEA 345 Sepulcher, it was incessantly sending forth… … England (xii Century). Lincoln Cathedral. of Cyprus, and of Jerusalem. There emanated from theFrench soul that energy for expansion which permitted iteach year, at a hundred points in France, to dig canals,to build bridges, aqueducts, and fountains, to open hos-pitals and schools, and to hang the…
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