Excerpt from Historical Essays Upon Paris, Vol. 3 of 3: Translated From the French of Mr. De Saint Foix Fief s fief to the crown. As to the fovereignty over upperibrittany, which, itis (aid, he alfo obtain ed, it was only to confer a title upon him, in order to make conquefls; and his quarrels with the Britons, it may be well believed, were far from being drfagreeable to the Court. He was a very equitable governor. It is true, that upon his death-bed, (till wavering in his opinion, be tween Idolatry and Chriftianity, which he had embraced, he bequeathed a hundred livres of pure gold to the capital churches of Normandy, and at the fame time caufed a hundred ofhis old captives to lofe their heads, in honor of his native Gods; yet it is probable that every body was fatisfied, and that this precaution appeared to the Monks of that time, only as a piece of Norman artifice, as in their Annals and Chronicles, they have not in the lead difqualrfied him upon this account, from the title of a very devout and pious prince. His fuccefl'or was William, furnamed lang-sword William was fucceeded by Richard fart: pear (without fear); Richard fan: pear by Richard tbegoad Richard the good, by Richard III. And Richard III. By Robert his brother, call ed the devil, who died a batchelor, and defigned a child he had by a daughter of a Furrier of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.