Aix, in the department of Bouches-du-Rh6ne, is the

seat of an archbishop. Hère Marins gained a great victory over the Teutons in 102 b.c.

Page LISE 6. 4. Charles le Téméraire : Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy (1433-1477). After defeating Louis XI. at Monthléry, he stormed and sacked the town of Liège, which had rebelled, and then renewed the war with France, but failed to take Beau vais. He was more successful in Lorraine, which he wrested from Duke René ; but the Swiss defeated him at Granson and Morat, and reconquered Lorraine. He was slain whilst trying to recover Nancy.

31. du royaume de Grenade : Granada, at first included in the kingdom of Cordova, became in 1235 the capital of the Moorish kingdom of Granada. It attained great prosperity and splendour, and in the war between the Spaniards and the Moors remained the last stronghold of the latter in Spain until 1492, when it was taken by Ferdinand and Isabella.

33. Ferdinand le Catholique et Isabelle : Ferdinand V., king of Aragon, was born in 1453 and died in 1516. By his marriage with Isabella of Castile he laid the foundations of the future pre-eminence of Sjjain in Europe. Isabella (1451-1504) was a remarkable woman ; she lent her aid to the expulsion of the Moors and the introduction of the Inquisition.

T. 17. c'est au milieu du XV® siècle . . : in 1282 the Emperor Rudolph granted Austria, Styria, and Carinthia to his two sons, Albert and Rudolph. The former afterwards became sole ruler, and Austria has been under the house of Hapsburg ever since. Of the dukes of Austria, Albert I. waselected emperor in 1298, Frederick in 1314, and Albert V. in 1438. After Frederick III., duke of Styria and Carinthia, who died in 1493, the German emperors were always of the house of Austria.