Identifier: greatestnations05elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ised a reduction oftaxes. A general millennium seemed to have dawned. The wars of Richelieu had developed two celebrated French generals—theyoung Prince of Conde, a descendant of the Bourbon princes of that name, andMarshal Turenne. These generals gained five great victories over the Haps-burg armies on the German frontier. Conde beat them at Rocroi in 1643, whenthe renowned Spanish infantry was literally wiped out. He and Turenne de-feated them at Nordlingen in 1645, and Conde won Dunkirk from them in1646. Then Turenne gained the great battle of Zusmarshausen, and Cond^that of Lens, both in 1648, the year when the Peace of Westphalia finallyended the fearful Thirty Years War. The Hapsburg strength was broken,and France had become the chief state in Europe. But alas! the son of Louis XIII., who succeeded him as Louis XIV, (1643-171 5), came to the throne a child, five years old; and the nobles soon resumedtheir old struggle for power. The situation became almost an exact duplicate I
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THE ARREST OF BROUSSEL France—Mazarin and the Fronde 885 of that under Mary cli Medici. The foreign queen, careless of the interests ofFrance; the Italian minister of inferior rank, grasping after wealth and honors;the wasted treasure, which had been accumulated by the former minister andking; the nobles, clamorous for their share of spoils; all these things repeatedthemselves. Only now the nobles were far weaker than before, and Mazarinfar shrewder and abler than the equally greedy Concini. Yet Mazarin soon became the most unpopular man in France. Anne ofAustria steadily upheld him—perhaps she had secretly become his wife—andtwice she and the little King had to flee with him from Paris. The compli-cated struggles of the period are called the War of the Fronde, though, indeed,they scarcely deserve to be known as wars at all. They were more like streetriots. The name Frofide itself was given to the nobles party in derision. Theword meant a sling, something like our modern boys pe

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