Lectures On the History of France

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Lectures On the History of France
Stephens James
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The States- Greneral, submitting to the same hard necessity which subju- gates all other rulers of mankind, were compelled to vote new subsidies, and to raise them by the imposition of new taxes. A demand so distasteful from any quarter, and so unexpected from an assembly of patriots and reformers, was followed by general disgust without doors, and by numerous secessions from THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 271 within. The nobles and the clergy abandoned their invidious position, leaving to the deputie...s of the Bourgeois the hazards and the discredit of perseverance in the struggle. Even Le Cocq himself abandoned the popular cause, and retired to his diocese.
And now the tide which had hitherto been flowing in favor of the States- General began, as it appeared, to ebb. Many cities, not excepting Paris itself, addressed the Dauphin with offers of pecuniary aid ; and again were to be seen at the Louvre the ministers whom he had so lately denounced as unworthy of any public trust. But a new and powerful ally appeared for the defense of Marcel and his adhsrents.


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