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Excerpt from A History of France From the Death of Louis XI, Vol. 1: Reign of Charles VIII, Regency of Anne of Beaujeu, 1483-1493
The period of French history with which this volume deals has been neglected by historians. Little or nothing has been written about it in English beyond the necessarily brief accounts to be found in such general histories as those of Sir Nathaniel Wraxall Dean G. W. Kitchin (1873 Mr. A. J. Grant and Mr. J. R. Moreton Macdonald Even in France a good many years have passed since the period was last studied in detail, the most recent books devoted to it being Dupuy's Hirtoire de la Reunion de la Bretagne' a la F ranee, published in 1880, and Pélicier's Errai rnr le Gouvernement de la Dame de Beaujeu, published in 1882. The neglect may be attributed to two causes. It is due primarily to the comparative paucity of original materials, and especially to the silence of the one attractive contemporary writer, Philippe de Commynes, who quarrelled with Anne de Beaujeu, and revenged him self by omitting all reference to her career. It is also encouraged by the fact that the years immediately following the death of Louis XI seem to suffer by contrast both with those that came before them and with those that came after - ou the one hand, with the dramatic interest of one of the most striking reigns in French history, and, on the other, with the romantic story of that first Italian expedition which is usually regarded as the beginning of modern European history.
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