Excerpt from The Page of the Duke of Savoy, Vol. 1 Finally, after the death of Charles the Bold, Mary of Burgundy, the last heiress of the gigantic name and im mense possessions of her father, made, on the day she mar ried Maximilian, son of the Emperor Frederick III., both name and possessions part and parcel of the domains of the house of Austria, in which they were swallowed up, as a. River is swallowed up in the ocean. It was a great loss for France, for Artois is a fine and rich province. Consequently, for three years, with varying fortunes and unforeseen results, Henry II. And Charles V. Have been Struggling face to face, and foot to foot, the one to regain, the other to keep it. During the furious war in which the son encountered the old enemy of the father, and, like the father, was to have his Marignano and Pavia, each had his good and bad days, his victories and defeats. France had seen the army of Charles V. Driven in disorder from the Siege of Metz, and had taken Marienbourg, Bouvines and Dinant; the Empire, on the other hand, had stormed Therouanne and Hesdin, and, furious at its defeat before Metz, had burned the one, and levelled the other to the ground. 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.