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Historical Tales
The Romance of Reality
By
CHARLES MORRIS
Author of "Half-Hours with the Best American Authors," "Tales from the Dramatists," etc.
IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES

Volume VI
French
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
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Copyright, 1893, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright, 1904, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright, 1908, by J. B. Lippincott Company.

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CONTENTS
PAGE
List of Illustrations
LOI
The Huns at Orleans
7
The Wooing of Clotilde
18
The Rival Queens
29
Roland at Roncesvalles
40
Charlemagne and the Avars
47
The Crowning of Charlemagne,
58
Peter the Hermit
69
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The Commune of Laon
81
How Big Ferr\u00e9 Fought for France
94
Bertrand Du Guesclin
103
Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans
116
The Career of a Knight-Errant
133
Louis the Politic and Charles the Bold
147
Charles the Bold and the Swiss
158
Bayard, the Good Knight
166
Episodes in the Life of a Traitor
176
St. Bartholomew's Day
188
King Henry of Navarre
197
The Murder of a King
210
Richelieu and the Conspirators
218
The Parliament of Paris
233
A Martyr to his Profession
251
The Man With the Iron Mask
257
Voltair's Last Visit to Paris
264
The Diamond Necklace
271
The Fall of the Bastille
281
The Story of the Sainte Ampoule
287
The Flight of the King
298
The End of the Terror
306
The Burning of Moscow
316
Napoleon's Return from Elba
327
The Prussian War and the Paris Commune
337
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
FRENCH.
PAGE
Friedland
Frontispiece
City of Orleans
8
The Vow of Clovis
25
The Coronation of Charlemagne
63
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A Marriage Feast in Brittany
82
Column of July, Place de la Bastille
100
Joan of Arc at Orleans
125
A Duel of Knights
133
Louis XI
147
The Duke of Guise at the French Court
189
Equestrian Statue of Henry IV
196
Chamber of Mary d' Medici
212
Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris
242
Voltaire's Last Visit to Paris
265
Marie Antoinette and her Children
274
The Last Victims of the Reign of Terror
307
The City of Moscow
317
Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elys\u00e9es, Paris
327
Napoleon's Return from Elba
332
Scene from the Franco-Prussian War
340
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THE HUNS AT ORLEANS.

On the edge of a grand plain, almost in the centre of France, rises a rich and beautiful city, time-honored and
famous, for it stood there before France had begun and while Rome still spread its wide wings over this whole
region, and it has been the scene of some of the most notable events in French history. The Gauls, one of
whose cities it was, named it Genabum. The Romans renamed it Aurelian, probably from their Emperor
Aurelian. Time and the evolution of the French language wore this name down to Orleans, by which the city
has for many centuries been known.

The broad Loire, the longest river of France, sweeps the foot of the sloping plain on which the city stands, and
bears its commerce to the sea. Near by grows a magnificent forest, one of the largest in France, covering no
less than ninety-four thousand acres. Within the city appears the lofty spires of a magnificent cathedral, while
numerous towers rise from a maze of buildings, giving the place, from a distance, a highly attractive aspect. It
is still surrounded by its medi\u00e6val walls, outside of which extend prosperous suburbs, while far and wide
beyond stretches the fertile plain.

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