So much so that scarcely a house is made on any street without having a shop for merchandise or for mechanical art.

And less difficulty is now made about going to Rome, Naples London, and elsewhere over-sea than was made formally about going to Lyons or to Geneva.

So much so that there are some who have gone by sea to seek, and have found, new homes.

The renown and authority of the king now reigning are so great that his subjects are honored and upheld in every country, as well at sea as on land." Foreigners were not less impressed than the French themselves with this advance in order, activity, and prosperity amongst the French community.
Machiavelli admits it, and with the melancholy of an Italian politician acting in the midst of rivalries amongst the Italian republics, he attributes it above all to French unity, superior to that of any other state in Europe.
As to the question, to whom reverts the honor of the good government at home under Louis XII., and of so much progress in the social condition of France, M.George Picot, in his _Histoire des Etats Generaux_ [t.

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