Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘France’
By James Bretherton (?1730-1806), after William Henry Bunbury (1750-1811), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
In the opening lines of Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, the narrator explains the perverse whim that led him to leave his home shores behind.
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Attributed to Charles Le Brun (1619–1690)
Louis XIV picked up the reins of power in France vowing to drive the national economy in the common interest, not his own.
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When Saint-Mars arrived to take over as warden of the Bastille in 1698, staff at Paris’s most famous prison had eyes only for his prisoner.
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Richard the Lionheart told Philip, the martial Bishop of Dreux, to decide whether he was a bishop or a knight.
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When Richard I heard that the town of Verneuil in Normandy was under threat, he made a vow that few could be expected to take so literally.
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Victor Hugo berates the general public for crediting everything they do themselves to their supposedly wonderful Government.