This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1759 edition. Excerpt: ... Surely it was not the people that ever of their own choice appointed this form of government. There is no country worth inhabiting, but where all orders owe equal obedience to the laws. CHAP. LXXXIV. Of Charles VIII, and the state of Europe when he undertook the conquest of Naples. LEWIS XI left ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1759 edition. Excerpt: ... Surely it was not the people that ever of their own choice appointed this form of government. There is no country worth inhabiting, but where all orders owe equal obedience to the laws. CHAP. LXXXIV. Of Charles VIII, and the state of Europe when he undertook the conquest of Naples. LEWIS XI left behind him one son, viz. Charles VIII, a prince only fourteen years of age, of a seeble constitution, and with little or no education, but postefled of the most powersul kingdom' in Europe. He left him also a civil war, the almost inseparable companion of minorities. The king indeed was not a minor according to the law of Charles V; but he was under age according to the law of nature. His eldest sister Anne, wise of the duke of Bourbon Baujeau, was by her father's will entrusted with the regency, which she really deserved. Lewis duke of Orleans, the first prince of the blood, who was afterwards that very king Lewis XII, whose memory is so dear to France, began with shewing himself the scourge of the state, to which he afterwards behaved himself as a father. On the one hand, his quality of first prince of the blood, so far from procuring him any share in the government, did not even give him the precedency over the other peers more ancient than himself. On the other, it . always seemed very odd, that a woman, whom the law excludes srom from the throne, should rule the state under another name. The duke of Orleans, excited by ambition (which excites even the most virtuous) engaged in a civil war against his sovereign, in order to be his guardian. The parliament of Paris perceived then the influence which it was likely one day to acquire in the case of minorities. The duke of Orleans addressed himself to this court, to obtain a decree for changing...
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