Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 292
to bear on the king and swore that thesentence should never be carried out. But Richelieu wasfirm as a tower. It is an infamous thing, he told theking, to punish the weak alone ; they cast no baleful shade :we must keep discipline by striking down the mighty.Richelieu crushed the Parlement and… … PARIS UNDER RICHELIEU 195 He added four provinces to France—Alsace, Lorraine, Artoisand Rousillon, humiliated Austria and exalted his countryto the proud position of dominant factor in Europeanpolitics. He foiled plot after plot and crushed rebellion.The queen-mother, Gaston Duke of Orleans her…
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