CONTENTS

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List of Illustrations[LOI]
The Huns at Orleans[7]
The Wooing of Clotilde[18]
The Rival Queens[29]
Roland at Roncesvalles[40]
Charlemagne and the Avars[47]
The Crowning of Charlemagne,[58]
Peter the Hermit[69]
The Commune of Laon[81]
How Big Ferré Fought for France[94]
Bertrand Du Guesclin[103]
Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans[116]
The Career of a Knight-Errant[133]
Louis the Politic and Charles the Bold[147]
Charles the Bold and the Swiss[158]
Bayard, the Good Knight[166]
Episodes in the Life of a Traitor[176]
St. Bartholomew's Day[188]
King Henry of Navarre[197]
The Murder of a King[210]
Richelieu and the Conspirators[218]
The Parliament of Paris[233]
A Martyr to his Profession[251]
The Man With the Iron Mask[257]
Voltair's Last Visit to Paris[264]
The Diamond Necklace[271]
The Fall of the Bastille[281]
The Story of the Sainte Ampoule[287]
The Flight of the King[298]
The End of the Terror[306]
The Burning of Moscow[316]
Napoleon's Return from Elba[327]
The Prussian War and the Paris Commune[337]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Friedland[Frontispiece]
City of Orleans[8]
The Vow of Clovis[25]
The Coronation of Charlemagne[63]
A Marriage Feast in Brittany[82]
Column of July, Place de la Bastille[100]
Joan of Arc at Orleans[125]
A Duel of Knights[133]
Louis XI[147]
The Duke of Guise at the French Court[189]
Equestrian Statue of Henry IV[196]
Chamber of Mary d' Medici[212]
Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris[242]
Voltaire's Last Visit to Paris[265]
Marie Antoinette and her Children[274]
The Last Victims of the Reign of Terror[307]
The City of Moscow[317]
Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysées, Paris[327]
Napoleon's Return from Elba[332]
Scene from the Franco-Prussian War[340]