un moral — supply moyen

1. 22. U n'y avait roi pour la soutenir^ "there was no king that could hold it up." An Instance of Michelet*s compressed style.

1. 29. Roussillon, Cerdagne^ two provinces north of the Pyrénées at their eastem extremity. They were pledged to Louis XI. in 1462 for 200,000 crowns by John IL, King of Aragon, who recovered them in T473, but was driven out in 1476. Charles VIII. restored them in 1493, and they were not finally acquired to France till the Treaty of the P)rrenees, 1659.

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1. 8. le duc de Bretagne^ Francis IL, duke from 1458 to 1488. His daughter Anne by her marriages with Charles VIII. and Louis XII. brought Brittany under the French crown.