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  • Was it to subject ourselves to so degrading, and so abject a tyranny, that we brought to the scaffold the last of the Capets, and lavished so much blood of French Citizens?

    Newspapers 2007

  • Was it to subject ourselves to so degrading, and so abject a tyranny, that we brought to the scaffold the last of the Capets, and lavished so much blood of French

    Moniteur/Morning Chronicle 2007

  • Capets themselves, rich and sought after by the most exclusive society, while Morel was nobody, might say to him as he had said to me: “I am a prince and I desire your welfare,” nevertheless Morel was his master if he did not yield to him.

    Time Regained 2003

  • Longue-Épée, and Richard Sans-Peur -- The Carlovingian line supplanted by the Capets.

    MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 Unknown

  • All the family of the Capets shall be banished from the French territory, those excepted who are under the sword of the law, and the offspring of Louis Capet, who shall both remain in the Temple.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Ptolemies to the Capets, from the twilight of a spring dawn in Sicily to the uglier shadow of Montfaucon's gibbet, there intervenes but the turning of a page, a choice between Theocritus and Villon.

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • [Then follow the names and description of twenty-four other prisoners.] And, also, that it is to the family of the Capets that the French people owe all the evils under the weight of which they have groaned for so many centuries.

    The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

  • The decisive part taken by Archbishop Adalbero (969-88) in the elevation of the Capets to the throne, the political part played by Archbishop Arnould

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • With the first Capets the secular relations between the pope and the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • The Man of Power of the beginning of the twentieth century demands a subtler analysis, presents an enigma to which the immortal portraits of forgotten Medicis and Capets give no clew.

    The Inside of the Cup — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

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