The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Volume III., by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Volume III. A History of the House of Valois Author: Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre Release Date: September 27, 2006 [EBook #3840] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARGUERITE DE VALOIS *** Produced by David Widger MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS QUEEN OF NAVARRE Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre BOOK III. HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF VALOIS. [Author unknown] CHARLES, COMTE DE VALOIS, was the younger brother of Philip the Fair, and therefore uncle of the three sovereigns lately dead. His eldest son Philip had been appointed guardian to the Queen of Charles IV.; and when it appeared that she had given birth to a daughter, and not a son, the barons, joining with the notables of Paris and the, good towns met to decide who was by right the heir to the throne, "for the twelve peers of France said and say that the Crown of France is of such noble estate that by no succession can it come to a woman nor to a woman's son," as Froissart tells us. This being their ...
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Title: The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Volume III. A History of the House of Valois Author: Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre Release Date: September 27, 2006 [EBook #3840] Language: English
MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS QUEEN OF NAVARRE Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre
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