Story of Old France
H. A. Guerber
91 chapters · 9 h 57 min · English
Read by Kangaroo, Sonia, Owen Cook, Michael Lucas, MFD32, Ross Klatte and others
History
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The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additional illuminating detail as limited space permits. Besides outlines of the principal events, this narrative includes many biographical sketches, together with the anecdotes and sayings to which allusions are often made in literature, politics, and arts. It also gives such data in regard to places, public buildings, and works of art as the well informed like to have at their fingers' ends. (from the Preface)
Chapters
1 Preface 3 min 2 France Long Ago 3 min 3 How the Gauls Came Into France 4 min 4 The Priests of the Gauls 6 min 5 Sailor Stories 4 min 6 Conquests of the Gauls 4 min 7 Two Great Battles 4 min 8 Caesar in Gaul 6 min 9 Gaul Under the Romans 9 min 10 The First Christian Martyrs 4 min 11 The Patron Saint of France 5 min 12 How the Franks Came Into Gaul 8 min 13 The First Kings 6 min 14 Conversion and Conquests of Clovis 8 min 15 Clotaire and His Relatives 7 min 16 Two Rival Queens 4 min 17 Good King Dagobert and His Successors 6 min 18 The Saracens Checked 3 min 19 The End of the Merovingians 5 min 20 Charlemagne's Wars 8 min 21 Charlemagne's Manner of Life 9 min 22 Charlemagne, Emperor 7 min 23 Feudalism 7 min 24 Troublesome Sons 5 min 25 The Strassburg Oath 5 min 26 The Normans Besiege Paris 5 min 27 The Last of the Carolingians 6 min 28 The Year One Thousand 4 min 29 Robert's Two Wives 8 min 30 The Wealth of the Clergy 7 min 31 The First Crusade 8 min 32 A Love Story 4 min 33 The Second Crusade 5 min 34 More Crusades 9 min 35 The Battle of Bouvines 4 min 36 Regency of Blanche of Castile 6 min 37 The Sixth Crusade 5 min 38 The Reign of Louis IX 5 min 39 Effect of the Crusades 6 min 40 The Battle of the Spurs 6 min 41 Death of the Knights Templar 6 min 42 The Beginning of the Hundred Years' War 6 min 43 The Siege of Calais 8 min 44 The Battle of Poitiers 6 min 45 Seven Years of Misery (1356-1363) 7 min 46 Th Brave Du Guesclin 6 min 47 The Achievements of Charles V 8 min 48 Charles VI 9 min 49 Misrule in France 6 min 50 The Disgraceful Treaty 5 min 51 Joan to the Rescue 8 min 52 Orleans and Rheims 7 min 53 Joan's Captivity and Martyrdom 10 min 54 Charles's Successes 6 min 55 The Crafty King Louis XI 5 min 56 Beginning of Louis XI.'s Reign 6 min 57 Achievements of Louis XI 8 min 58 Charles VIII 10 min 59 Second Italian War 5 min 60 Death of Louis XII 8 min 61 Francis I 6 min 62 Rivalry of Kings 10 min 63 Achievements of Francis I 6 min 64 The End of Francis I.'s Reign 8 min 65 The Reign of Henry II 10 min 66 A Young King and Queen 5 min 67 Catherine's Regency 8 min 68 The Forced Wedding 6 min 69 The Massacre of the Hueguenots 6 min 70 Death of Charles IX 5 min 71 An Effeminate King 7 min 72 The Battle of Coutras 6 min 73 The Murder of the Guises 8 min 74 Winning a Crown 9 min 75 Conversion of Henry IV 8 min 76 Henry IV.'s Second Marriage 5 min 77 Death of Henry IV 6 min 78 The Minority of Louis XIII 10 min 79 The Rule of Favorites 7 min 80 Richelieu and Louis XIII 7 min 81 End of Louis XIII.'s Reign 6 min 82 The Beginning of a Great Reign 8 min 83 The Wars of the Fronde 8 min 84 Death of Mazarin 6 min 85 Versailles 13 min 86 The Iron Mask 9 min 87 Louis XIV.'s Personal Campaigns 9 min 88 Madame de Maintenon 9 min 89 Later Wars of Louis XIV 7 min 90 The Spanish Succession 6 min 91 The Age of Louis XIV 7 min
