la Normandie now forras the departments of Seine

Inférieure, Eure, Orne, Calvados, and Manche ; l'Angoumois, part of those of Charente and Dordogne ; la Touraine, that of Indre-et-Loire ; le Poitou, tliose of Deux-Sèvres, Vendée, and Vienne ; la Saintongre, that of Charente-Inférieure.

3. Louis XI, eldest son of Charles VII., was born in 1423 and ascended the throne on his father's death in 1461. He died in 1483.

5-7. le Roussillon and la Cerdagne now form the department of Pyrénées - Orientales ; la Bourgogne, the departments of Côte-d'Or, Yonne, Saône-et-Loire, and Aîn ; la Franche -Comté, those of Haute-Saône, Doubs, and Jura ; la Picardie, that of Somme and part of Pas-de-Calais, Aisne, and Oise ; l'Artois, the greater partof Pas-de-Calais ; la Provence, the departments of Basses-Alpes and Bouches-du-Rhône,and part of Drôme,

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Var and Vaucluse ; le Maine, l'Anjou, and le Perche, those of Sartlie, Mayenne, and Maine-et-Loire.

4. 7. Charles VIII, born in 1470, succeeded liis father Louis XL in 1483. In 1491 lie niarried Anne, the heiress of Brittany. The chief event of liis reign was his conquest of the kingdom of Naples, which he lost a few months later.