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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XXIII
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"My dear," answered Juvenal, "we have eleven children, and consequently great cause to pray God to grant us peace; let us hope in Him, and He will help us." He often saw the Duke of Berry.

"Well, Juvenal," the old prince would say to him, "shall this last forever?
Shall we be forever under the sway of these lewd fellows ?" "My lord," Juvenal would answer, "hope we in God; yet a little while and we shall see them confounded and destroyed." Nor was Juvenal mistaken.

The opposition to the yoke of the Burgundians was daily becoming more and more earnest and general.

The butchers attempted to stein the current; but the carpenters took sides against them, saying, "We will see which are the stronger in Paris, the hewers of wood or the fellers of oxen." The parliament, the exchequer-chamber, and the Hotel-de-Ville demanded peace; and the shouts of Peace! peace! resounded in the streets.

A great crowd of people assembled on the Greve; and thither the butchers came with their company of about twelve hundred persons, it is said.


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