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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...it. He was then escorted to the French frontier, exchanged for his two sons, who were to be held as hostages, and landed on French soil. Mounting a splendid horse there ready, he cried exultantly, "Once more I am a king, " galloped away without a moment's delay, and reached Bayonne, where his mother and sister awaited him. The courtiers and the people welcomed him with the wildest joy, and for an entire year the liberated monarch lingered in the southern provinces, recuperating his health by unbridled indulgence in every species of dissipation. In the Treaty of Madrid the unprincipled character of Francis is strikingly illustrated; he callously left his allies to their fate, while Charles, as has been seen, protected his own. Never for one moment, however, had Francis meant to observe the treaty. The very first business he attended to on his return to France was the formal repudiation of the contract by which he had obtained his freedom. Charles V. was furiously enraged against his late prisoner, denounced him as a liar and a scoundrel, and clamorously demanded that Francis should abide the treaty or come back to jail. Francis had no intention of doing either; but his high chivalric sense of honour demanded that he should take some notice of Charles' denunciation, and he therefore challenged the emperor to mortal combat. To the utter disgust of Francis, Charles accepted the challenge and named the time and place for the fight, whereupon Francis dropped the subject; nor did he ever afterwards risk his royal person in battle of any sort. An assembly of the notables, convoked by the king for the purpose, formally declared that Francis had no authority to cede French territory, and that therefore the Treaty of Madrid was void. Later in this year, 1526
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The story of France Volume 1; from the earliest times to the consulate of Napoleon Bonaparte
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