HERO STORIES OF FRANCE

HERO STORIES OF FRANCE

BY EVA MARCH TAPPAN

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY _The Riverside Press Cambridge_ 1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY EVA MARCH TAPPAN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

ILLUSTRATIONS

FERDINAND FOCH, MARSHAL OF FRANCE _Colored Frontispiece_

CHARLEMAGNE IMPOSING BAPTISM ON THE SAXONS 42 _After an old manuscript_

ROLAND AT RONCESVALLES 54 _From a drawing by_ V. Foulquier

SAINT LOUIS OPENING THE PRISONS OF HIS REALM 74 _From a painting by_ Luc Olivier Merson

JEANNE DARC AT THE CORONATION OF CHARLES VII 90 _From a painting by_ Jules Eugène Lenepveu

HENRY IV AND MARIE DE’ MEDICI 118 _From a painting by_ Rubens. _The King is shown presenting the Queen with the orb of sovereignty in making her regent on his departure for the war in Germany_

MARIE ANTOINETTE IN THE CONCIERGERIE PRISON 152 _From a painting by_ Charles Louis Müller

NAPOLEON AT THE BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND 180 _From a painting by_ Meissonier. _At Friedland Napoleon won a brilliant victory over the Russians in 1807. Meissonier said that in painting this picture his intention was to show Napoleon at the zenith of his glory_

HERO STORIES OF FRANCE