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100 1 _aBelloc, Hilaire,
_d1870-1953
245 1 0 _aMiniatures of French history
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-04
508 _aCarol Brown, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Miniatures of French history" by Hilaire Belloc is a collection of historical vignettes written in the early 20th century. It presents vivid, tightly focused scenes from antiquity to the medieval formation of the French state, highlighting moments of colonization, conversion, warfare, and kingship that shaped a national identity. The opening of this collection moves briskly from myth-tinged origins to state-building: Greeks found Marseilles through a Ligurian princess’s choice; Cæsar crushes the seafaring Veneti in a decisive naval gambit; St. Martin dies amid visionary memories that anchor the faith in Gaul; and Clovis’s baptism at Rheims weds Frankish arms to Catholic legitimacy. It then recounts Charles Martel’s stand against the Arab advance near Tours, the ambush of Charlemagne’s rearguard at Roncesvalles that begets the Roland legend, and Paris’s grim defense against Viking siege led by Eudes as imperial aid falters. With Hugh Capet’s election and coronation at Noyon, the narrative marks France’s political re-centering; on the Aragon frontier it sketches the hard, hopeful rhythms of early Reconquista; and it closes this opening stretch with William of Normandy, rebuffed by the French king yet methodically mustering ships and men for the English venture. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1926
653 _aFrance -- History
856 4 _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000010036004
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78114
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