ORIGINS (of 58 front. J.-C. with 887)
Roman period
Mérovingiens
Carolingians
FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483)
Any power of Feudality
Feudal royalty
Decline of Feudality
One Hundred Years old war
Ruin Feudality
MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789)
Wars of Italy
Wars against the house of Austria
Wars of religion
Apogee of monarchical France
Decline of monarchy
THE REVOLUTION
Ruin Ancien Régime
The Republic
Empire
Hastings With Luna. It is told that the famous Hastings pirate, wanting to seize the town of Luna, that it took for Rome, imagined to ask for the baptism, then was made pass for death; the bishop, yielding to the prayers the Norman ones, allowed them to enter without weapons chrétiennement to celebrate the funeral of their chief. But at the time when the bishop advanced to bless the body, Hastings was drawn up suddenly out of its coffin and killed the bishop of a blow of axe; his companions, tie of the daggers, precipitated on the soldiers who supervised them, and massacred them as well as the priests: Hastings was a Master of the city. Plundering of a city by the Norman ones. Norman had initially dared to devastate only coasts, but when they knew that the Franks fought the ones against the others, they went up the rivers with their boats, and the residents of the Seine, of the Loire, of the Garonne had as much with suffered as the inhabitants from the coasts: all those which were defended were massacred, the women and the children were taken along in captivity; the villages were burnt. The disorder was such as the same cities were not more with the shelter of the Norman ones: they ransacked Rouen, Nantes, Bordeaux, Saint Martin's day de Tours, and to the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés under the walls of Paris. Massacre monks by the Norman ones. The Norman ones unloaded with the improvist, melted on a village or on a monastery, the walls climbed, plundered the houses, massacred those which held head to them, and fled with their spoils on their fast boats. Pagan fanatics, they especially liked to violate the churches, to burn the holy books, and to disperse the relics; they tortured the monks to make them say where the money was hidden, then it took pleasure to massacre them in mass: "sang We to them the mass of the lances", said they. Died of Robert the Fort with Brissarthe. Robert the Fort, having learned that the Norman ones had plundered the city of Mans, solved to cut the road of Angers to them and to take again the spoils to them: he reached them in Brissarthe, beat them and locked up them in the Church. The day seemed finished and Robert, exhausted heat, had removed his armour and his helmet, when suddenly the Norman ones spring on the dispersed French: Robert, without giving time to take again his armour, precipitates in the fray and fall bored blows on the steps from the Church (July 866). |
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Charles the Bald person, who has as a share France (843-877), tries to raise the royal authority and to drive out the Norman ones. But the large ones, which benefitted from the disorders to increase their independence, and which do not want to become again of the subjects, return their hereditary grounds and their offices and become small sovereigns. Charles the Bald person, who has only one weak army, cannot prevent the Norman ones from extending their devastations, and Robert the Fort perishes in them combatant (866). |
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