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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XXIII
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The last-named, the hero of the siege, was the only one who paid for his heroism with his life; the baillie, the mayor, and the vicar bought themselves off.

On the 19th of January, at midday, the English, king and army, made their solemn entry into the city.

It was two hundred and fifteen years since Philip Augustus had won Rouen by conquest from John Lackland, King of England; and happily his successors were not to be condemned to deplore the loss of it very long.
These successes of the King of England were so many reverses and perils for the Count of Armagnac.

He had in his hands Paris, the king, and the _dauphin_; in the people's eyes the responsibility of government and of events rested on his shoulders; and at one time he was doing nothing, at another he was unsuccessful in what he did.

Whilst Henry V.was becoming master of nearly all the towns of Normandy, the constable, with the king in his army, was besieging Senlis; and he was obliged to raise the siege.


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