The invaders behaved with an innocent impiety and bestiality that had never been known in those lands since Clovis was signed with the cross.

To the naked pride of the new men nations simply were not.

The struggling populations of two vast provinces were simply carried away like slaves into captivity, as after the sacking of some prehistoric town.

France was fined for having pretended to be a nation; and the fine was planned to ruin her forever.

Under the pressure of such impossible injustice France cried out to the Christian nations, one after another, and by name.