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... century ; and next , most deeply inter- esting to us English , the struggle between the rival houses of Montfort and Blois , with Du Guesclin for its central figure . Then comes good Duchess Anne , whose memory lives in stone in some of ...
... century ; and next , most deeply inter- esting to us English , the struggle between the rival houses of Montfort and Blois , with Du Guesclin for its central figure . Then comes good Duchess Anne , whose memory lives in stone in some of ...
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... century ; and yet , till Monsieur de Villemarqué began his labours of love , it does not appear that much effort had been made to chronicle these dramatic ballads and poems , which have lived in the memories and on the lips of the ...
... century ; and yet , till Monsieur de Villemarqué began his labours of love , it does not appear that much effort had been made to chronicle these dramatic ballads and poems , which have lived in the memories and on the lips of the ...
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... century preceding the birth of Christ Great Britain and Ireland were inhabited by the same race , who at that time peopled the north - west provinces of France , or , to speak more correctly , by a mix- ture of two races , the Gaels and ...
... century preceding the birth of Christ Great Britain and Ireland were inhabited by the same race , who at that time peopled the north - west provinces of France , or , to speak more correctly , by a mix- ture of two races , the Gaels and ...
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... his first voyage across the channel in order to punish the Britons for their audacity . A fabulous history of Breton kings begins with Conan Meriadech , who , in the reign of the Roman emperor Gratian , at the end of the fourth century ,
... his first voyage across the channel in order to punish the Britons for their audacity . A fabulous history of Breton kings begins with Conan Meriadech , who , in the reign of the Roman emperor Gratian , at the end of the fourth century ,
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... century preached by St. Clair , and watered into fuller progress by the blood of the martyrs SS . Donatien and Rogatien . The two most celebrated of the Druid academies were in Belle Ile and the isle of Ushant ; there was another in the ...
... century preached by St. Clair , and watered into fuller progress by the blood of the martyrs SS . Donatien and Rogatien . The two most celebrated of the Druid academies were in Belle Ile and the isle of Ushant ; there was another in the ...
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