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...a lady of that family, the daughter of a brave Knight slain in the wars in Brittany. Since this time, both the Baron de Clarenham and his son, Sir Ful... ...n to leave Bordeaux, he travelled safely through France, and crossing from Brittany, at length found himself once more in Somersetshire. It was late, ... ...chose to call their little party, safely arrived at Rennes, the capital of Brittany, where Jean de Montford held his court. Here they met the tidings ... ...ut exposing himself to death or captivity; and even within the confines of Brittany itself, Duke John, though bound by gratitude and affection to the ... ... did he tarry so long on the road?” “How could we come on when the Duke of Brittany him- self said it was certain death or captivity? We were forced t... ...of Normandy, and his brother had been murdered by an Englishman—his native Brittany was torn by dissensions and divisions—and his youth had been passe... ... came away, but as sore wounded as ever I saw a Knight. And the butcher of Brittany is upon them by this time! And here I am sent to ask succours—and ...

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...e dared tarry no longer in Scotland, but hastened south, leav ing Hoel of Brittany lying sick at Dumbarton, I know not of what infirmity. With what m... ...the king at Dumbarton, where he had brought succour to his nephew, Hoel of Brittany. Arthur found Hoel safe in body and in wealth, and altogether whol... ...st went therefore each to his own place, loudly praising the king. Even in Brittany men told that there was no more valiant captain than he. Arthur tu... ...ovince which men now call Normandy. From Le Mans drew Earl Borel, and from Brittany Earl Hoel. Passing noble of visage was Hoel, and all those lords w... ... hundred lances. This was their bounden service, said these peers. Hoel of Brittany promised ten thou sand men, Aguisel of Scotland two thousand more... ...kindliness, as for Wisdom and chivalry. Now Hoel was captain of the men of Brittany. His fellow ship were proud and debonair. They were reckless of d... ... man they charged, and as one man they pierced through the foe. The men of Brittany swept down on the Romans, who were pursuing their comrades, and tr...

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...tle tomb of the two children (who died young) of Charles VIII. and Anne of Brittany, in white marble, embossed with symbolic dolphins and exquisite ar... ...uis, the ermine and the festooned rope which formed the devices of Anne of Brittany,—the tone of this rich-looking roof carries out the mild glow of t... ...e that he died. It was within the walls of Amboise that his widow, Anne of Brittany, already in mourning for three children, two of whom we have seen ... .... The main event in the history of the castle is the mar- riage of Anne of Brittany to her first husband, Charles VIII., which took place in its great... ...f antiq- uity as this fascinating tomb is the exquisite oratory of Anne of Brittany, among the apartments of the castle the only chamber worthy of not... ...On the south side stands the tomb of Francis II., the last of the Dukes of Brittany, and of his second wife, Margaret of Foix, erected in 1507 by thei... ... presence of one of the purest and most touching of modern tombs. Catholic Brittany has erected in the opposite transept a monument to one of the most... ...he was eventually repudiated, in order that her fiance might marry Anne of Brittany,—an alliance so magnificently political that we almost condone the... ...lptor (at once) Jehan de Paris, author (sic) of the tomb of Francis II. of Brittany, to which we gave some attention at Nantes, and which the writer o...

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...them buzz to offend thine ears. First will I see the coronation; And then to Brittany I’ll cross the sea, To effect this marriage, so it please my lor... ...refore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst, Forthwith we’ll send him hence to Brittany, Till storms be past of civil enmity. OXFORD: Ay, for if Edward... ...at Richmond with the rest shall down. SOMERSET: It shall be so; he shall to Brittany. Come, therefore, let’s about it speedily. [Exeunt.] SCENE VII: ...

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...repit. A cold precision made itself felt throughout. Tourists in Normandy, Brittany, Maine, and Anjou must all have seen in the capitals of those prov... ... la Porte-de-Seez, and becomes the rue du Bercail as it enters the road to Brittany. If the departure of Mademoiselle Cormon made a great noise in Ale... ...tuosity, still lived, though she seemed to be suffering. Along the road to Brittany the Vicomte de Troisville was stated to be a younger son without a... ... departure she passed through her native town with an artist on his way to Brittany. She wanted to see Fougeres, where the adventure of the Marquis de... .... Alencon owes to him its connection with the industrial movement by which Brittany may possibly some day be joined to what is popularly called modern...

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... you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it’s going for a song— you... ... the keeper and his daughter go off to Morlaix and get drunk. The women in Brittany drink dreadfully.” She stooped to match a silk; then she lifted he... ... it is. What does it call itself? A History of the Assizes of the Duchy of Brittany. Quimper, 1702. The book was written about a hundred years later t... ... on good terms with the lady of Cornault; but that he had been absent from Brittany for over a year, and people had ceased to associate their names. T...

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... words? Marcas’ name was Zephirin; Saint Zephirin is highly vener- ated in Brittany, and Marcas was a Breton. Study the name once more: Z Marcas! The ...

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... boulevards fancied himself at some enormous distance from Paris,—in lower Brittany or the wilds of Canada. Silence has perhaps its own degrees. Godef... ...pped the diligences containing government money, which they transmitted to Brittany and La Vendee for the support of the royalist troops. They re- ga... ...acy in the provinces powerless. “This expectation of exciting civil war in Brittany, La Vendee, and part of Normandy, coincided in time with the final... ...estinely changed two thousand francs in silver money for gold, and fled to Brittany and England. On arriving at Saint-Savin, the women Lechantre and B... ...This melody, which greatly resembles the long drawn out melancholy airs of Brittany, is one of those poems which vibrate in the heart long after the e...

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...ir La Cote Male Taile, and turn we unto Sir Tristram de Liones that was in Brittany. When La Beale Isoud understood that he was wed- ded she sent to h... ...rned unto the realm of Logris, and Sir Kehydius said that he would go into Brittany. Now turn we unto Sir Dagonet again, that when he and his squires ...

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... mercy than the heathen senate. Another woman, in 1450, when Sir Gilles of Brittany was savagely imprisoned and starved in much the same manner by his... ...he once wild and independent Gauls. Everywhere, except in the moorlands of Brittany , they had become as much like Romans themselves as they could acc... ...33 THE Franks had fully gained possession of all the north of Gaul, except Brittany. Chlodweh had made them Christians in name, but they still remaine... ... the few remaining chiefs re- solved to cross the Loire and take refuge in Brittany. It was much against the opinion of M. de Lescure; but, in his fee... ...eturn to La Vendee, but, with her mother, was sheltered by the peasants of Brittany throughout the win- ter and spring until they found means to leave...

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...said Goupil, “won’t want to witness her own disaster; she’ll go and die in Brittany, where she can manage to find a wife for her son.” “No,” said the ... ...ld lady say that if she could settle her affairs she should go and live in Brittany, as she would not have means enough left to live her. She is think... ... “But suppose I give them to you, on condition of your buying an estate in Brittany near Madame de Portenduere,— 192 Ursula you could then marry her ...

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...in every Town and District of France! Nay one Patriot Mother, in Lagnon of Brittany, assembles her ten children; and, with her own aged hand, swears t... ...nd now, especially, when the February swearing has set them all agog! From Brittany to Burgundy, on most plains of France, under most City-walls, it i... ...ider burns the flame of Federation; ever wider and also brighter. Thus the Brittany and Anjou brethren mention a Fraternity of all true Frenchmen; and... ...Paris was scourging while need continued: contrariwise, in the Morbihan of Brittany, without scourging, armed Peasants are up, roused by pulpit-drum, ...

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..., be bold. NORTHUMBERLAND: Then thus: I have from Port le Blanc, a bay In Brittany, received intelligence That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord C...

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..., Wales, and Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, and in all the Out Isles, and in Brittany and in many countries; that at the feast of our Lady the Assumptio...

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...ing so young, he was ardent and flushed with hope; and, when the people of Brittany (which was his inherit ance) sent him five hundred more knights a... ... thousand foot soldiers, he believed his for tune was made. The people of Brittany had been fond of him from his birth, and had requested A Child’s ... ...is own wife was living) that never slept again through his whole reign. In Brittany, the indignation was intense. Arthur’s own sister Eleanor was in t... ...ohn and shut up in a convent at Bristol, but his half sister Alice was in Brittany. The people chose her, and the murdered prince’s father in law, th... ... B ARONS remembered the murdered Arthur’s sister, Eleanor the fair maid of Brittany, shut up in her convent at Bristol, none among them spoke of her n... ...had the courage of a man, and the heart of a lion, assembled the people of Brittany, where she then was; and, showing them her infant son, made many p... ...tch for him, entered into a friendly league with the Dukes of Burgundy and Brittany, and gave them his two sisters in marriage. War with France was im... ...Roses. All being settled, a time was appointed for Henry to come over from Brittany, and for a great rising against Richard to take place in several p... ...lotting of the Duchess of Burgundy, and disputes respecting the affairs of Brittany. The King feigned to be very patriotic, indignant, and warlike; bu...

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... bends in to soften the rainy climate of her great western peninsula, making Brittany almost as warm as the sunnier south. Above all, the rich soil of...

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...t, in order that he might go and ripen his brain in his Abbey of Busay, in Brittany, and better learn there how to speak and write. Pontchartrain exec... ...to the Duc de Chartres) forced M. de Chaulnes to give up the government of Brittany, which he had long held, and conferred it upon the Comte de T oulo... ...ecompense. M. de Chaulnes was old and fat, but much loved by the people of Brittany. He was overwhelmed by this determina- 57 Saint-Simon tion of the... ..., and reproached him for giving, under cover of a trick, the government of Brittany to the Comte de Toulouse, having promised it to the Duc de Chartre... ...ct, that the bishopric of Poitiers was taken from him, and he retired into Brittany, where he passed the rest of his life in solitude and piety. His b... ...rived from all sides; and the seas of Normandy, of Holland, of England, of Brittany, even the Mediterranean, furnished all they contained—the most unh... ...ht a hand over him as he could. He was a gentle- man of good birth, and of Brittany, by name le Pere du T revoux. He forbade Monsieur not only certain... ...e sums upon her. When he went in place of his father to open the States of Brittany, she accompanied him in a coach and six horses, with a ri- diculou... ... his fathers as far as the one who had been page of Queen Anne, Duchess of Brittany; but beyond that he knew noth- ing, and it was not worth while sea...

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...icit favors, or to confer with the queen as to the fate and condi- tion of Brittany, awaited in this pleasure-ground the oppor- tunity for an audience... ...to imagine that Michel Columb, that great sculp- tor, the Michel-Angelo of Brittany, passed that way for the pleasure of Queen Anne, whom he afterward... ...hom he afterwards immortalized on the tomb of her father, the last duke of Brittany. Whatever La Fontaine may choose to say about the “little gallerie... ...e-writers depict as a juggler, owned the rich abbey of Saint-Mahe in Lower Brittany, and refused many high ecclesiastical dignities; the gold which th...

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... rabid royalists in Normandy, kept the part of that province which adjoins Brittany under subjection to Henri IV. by the rigor of his executions. The ...

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... 1834 as Commandant of the military division, including the departments of Brittany, the scene of his exploits in 1799 and 1800, had come to settle in... ...red, and we should go to live with Lisbeth in some pretty country place—in Brittany, or wherever you like. There we should see nobody, and we should b... ...e done. I see nothing for it but flight. I always delight in the coun- try—Brittany, Languedoc, what you will, so long as I am free to love you. Poor ... ...t his soldiers to attention when he was beating the broom on the heaths of Brittany in 1799. (See Les Chouans.) “You shall be obeyed, Marechal,” said ...