The Counts of Gruyere
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" Whether, as has been recorded, Louis really loved his sister, who was almost as able and far more at- tractive than himself, he kept her in strict imprison- ment until she signed a paper of perpetual fidelity to him, and then he sent her back to Savoy and re- established her on her ducal throne. The prince bishop of Geneva was even more eager than his sis- ter-in-law to desert Duke Charles, and fearing that his city would suffer the fate of Lausanne, offered to assist the Bernois in invading ...Burgundy, there to complete the duke's destruction; whereupon the Bernois at the price of an enormous indemnity con- sented to spare Geneva, and to cease all further conquests in the Pays de Vaud. They also agreed, under the repeated commands of King Louis to send their deputies to a convention of the ambassa- 80 The Counts of Gruyere dors of all the powers to meet at Fribourg in July, 1476. A great and imposing company were these ambassadors, who from France and Austria, Savoy, and the confederated cities and cantons of Switzer- land met to treat of the long needed peace.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" Whether, as has been recorded, Louis really loved his sister, who was almost as able and far more at- tractive than himself, he kept her in strict imprison- ment until she signed a paper of perpetual fidelity to him, and then he sent her back to Savoy and re- established her on her ducal throne. The prince bishop of Geneva was even more eager than his sis- ter-in-law to desert Duke Charles, and fearing that his city would suffer the fate of Lausanne, offered to assist the Bernois in invading ...Burgundy, there to complete the duke's destruction; whereupon the Bernois at the price of an enormous indemnity con- sented to spare Geneva, and to cease all further conquests in the Pays de Vaud. They also agreed, under the repeated commands of King Louis to send their deputies to a convention of the ambassa- 80 The Counts of Gruyere dors of all the powers to meet at Fribourg in July, 1476. A great and imposing company were these ambassadors, who from France and Austria, Savoy, and the confederated cities and cantons of Switzer- land met to treat of the long needed peace.
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