The Reign Lewis XI (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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N OW that the serious study of modern languages and history is making some way in our public schools, I know of no fitter text-book for the higher forms than the Memoirs of Philip de Commines. The work of that subtle and judicious politician is by far the best example we possess of French prose, at a time when it has become perfectly clear and intelligible, while still retaining archaisms interesting to the student of the development of the French tongue. Nor is the matter of Commines less valuable. He has been justly esteemed as the first among the writers of Western Europe to rival the great names of antiquity. His work as a manual of statecraft may rank with those of Thucydides or Tacitus or Macchiavelli. But a student who should read his narrative only, might find it difficult to form any clear conception of the somewhat confused events and intrigues of the reign of Lewis XI. He might perhaps be perplexed to find that ruler presented in a light so different from that in which, owing to an early acquaintance with Quentin Durward, he may have learnt to regard him It is true that the consolidation of the French kingdom.

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