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A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times

CHAPTER XXIV
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I must see my relatives and friends in France; they will not treat, surely, without having consulted with me.

If peace depended upon me, though I were doomed to die seven days after swearing it, that would cause me no regret.
however, what matters it what I say?
I am not master in anything at all; next to the two kings, it is the Duke of Burgundy and the Duke of Brittany who have most power.

Will you not come and call upon me ?" he added, pressing the hand of one of the ambassadors.

"They will see you before they go," said the Earl of Suffolk, in a tone which made it plain that no private conversation would be permitted between them.

And, indeed, the Earl of Suffolk's barber went alone to wait upon the ambassadors in order to tell them that, if the Duke of Burgundy desired it, the Duke of Orleans would write to him.


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