INCORPORATING THE CORRECTIONS AND RESEARCHES OF RECENT

HISTORIANS, AND CONTINUED DOWN TO THE YEAR 1858.

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THE STUDENT'S HISTORY OF FRANCE

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SECOND EMPIRE IN 1852.

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE COUNTRY.

By W. H. PEARSON, M.A.

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This work has been written 'by an English scholar long resident in France, and intimately acquainted with its literature and history. It is intended, like the preceding works in the same series, to supply a long acknowledged want in our literature, namely, a HISTORY OF FRANCE, incorporating the researches of recent historians, and suitable for the higher forms in Schools and for Students at the Universities. It is unnecessary to point out the importance of a knowledge of French history to every one who aspires to a liberal education; but it may not be amiss to remind the reader that the true meaning and effect of the drama of the Revolution, of which we have not yet seen the catastrophe, can be understood only by a far deeper study of the previous condition and history of France than most of our countrymen are disposed to undertake. The author's desire has been to avoid the capital error of writing the history of France from an English point of view, a course which cannot fail to convey an unjust conception of the institutions, government, habits, and character of the people. What is needed is an impartial, genial, and even sympathetic account of French history.-Editor's Preface.

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Meeting of the States-General in the Salle Bourbon at Paris, October 1614.
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THE STUDENT'S HISTORY OF GREECE

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ROMAN

CONQUEST.

WITH CHAPTERS ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND ART.

By WM. SMITH, LL.D.

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