France of to-Day, 1892
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Excerpt from France of to-Day, 1892: A Survey Comparative and Retrospective Where should a survey of France towards the close of the nineteenth century begin? The historian, glancing over the map, would naturally fix his attention upon the circle comprising Paris. There, for him, France properly speaking begins; the tiny kingdom represented by its third capital, Lutetia, being the nucleus of the vast hexagon spread before us. Portion by portion, lot by lot, as a child´s picture-puzzle is put piecemeal together, as a spider´s web takes shape and proportion, the French map was made, the process occupying just a thousand years. Hugues Capet, first king of France, counted two provinces only as his dominion, the He de France and the Orléannais; not till the eighteenth century had nearly lapsed were the little states of Avignon and Orange incorporated into French territory. Of the eighty-three departments created by the National Assembly in 1789, eight, no more, were formed from the original kingdom of France. The traveller passing from Beauvais to Paris, from Paris to Laon, and visiting in another direction, Chartres, Orléans, and Blois, would have made the circuit of Hugues Capet´s small empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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