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CHRONICLES OF CANADA
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes
Volume 5
THE SEIGNEURS OF OLD CANADA
A Chronicle of New-World Feudalism
By WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO
TORONTO, 1915
CHAPTER I
AN OUTPOST OF EMPIRE
What would history be without the picturesque annals of
the Gallic race? This is a question which the serious
student may well ask himself as he works his way through
the chronicles of a dozen centuries. From the age of
Charlemagne to the last of the Bonapartes is a long stride
down the ages; but there was never a time in all these
years when men might make reckonings in the arithmetic
of European politics without taking into account the
prestige, the power, and even the primacy of France.
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