Half-Hours With the Best French Authors
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Excerpt from Half-Hours With the Best French Authors: Short Passages From Some of the Most Celebrated Prose Writers Sire Jean de Joinville, the celebrated French historian, was born in 1224, and was descended in a direct line from Godefroy de Bouillon. Several of his ancestors also distinguished themselves in the Crusades. He was educated in the court of Thibaut IV, King of Navarre and Count of Champagne, who was both a poet and a musician, and there he acquired the power of giving graceful and lively expression to his thoughts. In 1245, King Louis proclaimed a crusade against the Saracens, and Joinville determined to lead a band of his followers to the Holy Land. He remained with the crusaders for six years, and became the devoted servant and friend of the king. He returned to France in 1254, and though he spent much of his time at court, devoted himself chiefly to the management of his estates, and to the erection and improvement of churches. He died in 1319, at the age of ninety-five, having witnessed the reigns of no less than six kings, those of Louis VIII, Louis IX, Philippe le Hardi, Philippe le Bel, Louis le Hutin, and Philippe VI, surnamed the Long. He wrote the Life of St. Louis, at the request of Jeanne of Navarre, the wife of Philippe le Bel. It may be well that I should now speak of the river that flows through Egypt, and comes from the terrestrial paradise; and I recall these things to your memory, that you may be able to understand some circumstances which have to do with my subject. This river is different from all other rivers, for the more streams a river receives, the greater number of little streams and brooks does it discharge; and this river sends out none, but flows in one channel into Egypt, and there divides and spreads over the country. 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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