Excerpt from The Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism It was France that first brought an order nationalism'fi'ut of feudal chaos it was Wm of Capet that rallied Europe the rescue of the Holy Sepulchre and led greatest of the crusades to Palestine. Yet t France of the last crusades was within century the France of Crecy, just as the Fran of Austerlitz was more speedily the France Waterloo and men who followed the at Solferino lived to see it furled in hum at Sedan. No other country has had a as prolific in triumph and reverse, in of peaceful progress and periods of civil commotion, in pageant and tragedy, in all that gives fascination to historical narrative. Happy the land whose annals are tiresome Not such has been the fortune of poor old France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.