Ascanio, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Miss Pardoe (in the Pref ace to the Court and Reign of Francis I. ), did the reign of any European sovereign present so many and such varying phases. A contest for empire, a captive monarch, a female regency, and a religious war; the poisoned bowl and the burning pile alike doing their work of death amid scenes of uncalculating splendor and unbridled dissipation ;the atrocities of bigotry and intolerance, blent with the most unblushing licentiousness and the most undisguised profligacy; such are the materials offered to the student by the times of Francis I. The period thus characterized is that in which the scene of the present romance is laid, and although the plot is mainly concerned with the for tunes of others than subjects of the Roi Chevalier, we are treated to a succession of vivid pictures of life and manners at the French court and in the French
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