Opis: Richelieu a Tale of France in the Reign of King Louis XIII (Classic Reprint) - James G. P. R.

Excerpt from Richelieu a Tale of France in the Reign of King Louis XIII

The vast Sylva Lida which, in the days of Charlemagne stretched far along the banks of the Seine, and formed a woody screen round the infant city of Paris, has now dwindled to a few thousand acres in the neighborhood of St. Germain-en-Laye. Not so in the time of Louis the Thirteenth. It was then one of the most magnificent forests of France, and extending as far as the town of Mantes, took indifferently the name of the Wood of Mantes, or the Forest of Laye. That portion to the north of St. Germain has been long cut down: yet there were persons living, not many years since, who remembered some of the old trees still standing, bare, desolate, and alone, like parents who had seen the children of their hopes die around them in their prime.

In the heart of the wood, at that point where two roads divaricated from each other, stood the hut of a woodman, and the abreuvoir where many a gay lord of the court would stop when his hunting was over, and give his horse time to drink. There, too, many a traveller would pause to ask his way through the forest; so that Philip, the woodman, and his young family, w'ere known to almost all whom business or pleasure brought through the wood of Mantes.

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Nazwa: Richelieu a Tale of France in the Reign of King Louis XIII (Classic Reprint)
Autor: James G. P. R.
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330277614
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 492
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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