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... feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall their memory....

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...ream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis X... ...his tower is not of yesterday.” “It sustained, they say, an assault of the Normans, and prob- ably formed part of the first palace of the kings of Par...

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................................................................................... 46 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS ........................................................................................................................ 55 CHAPTER VIII ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE FIRST, THE NORMAN CONQUEROR..............................

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........ 46 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS ...................................................................... ... to make him unpopular. Having lived so long in Normandy, he preferred the Normans to the English. He made a Norman Archbishop, and Norman Bishops; hi... ...Archbishop, and Norman Bishops; his great officers and favourites were all Normans; he introduced the Norman fashions and the Norman language; in imit... ...ot Earl Godwin and his six sons well out of his way, the King favoured the Normans more than ever. He invited over William, Duke of Normandy , the so... ... passion for fine horses, dogs, and arms, accepted the invitation; and the Normans in England, find ing themselves more numerous than ever when he ar... ...g might possibly have made such a will; or, having always been fond of the Normans, he might have encouraged Norman William to as pire to the English... ...ckens 55 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS HAROLD WAS CROWNED King of England on the very day of the maudlin... ...er. He blessed the enterprise; and cursed Harold; and re quested that the Normans would pay ‘Peter’s Pence’—or a tax to himself of a penny a year on ... ...d by two nobles; and then be sieged York. Harold, who was waiting for the Normans on the coast at Hastings, with his army, marched to Stamford Bridge...

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...oung Richard to understand well, whereas, in other parts of the Duchy, the Normans had forgotten their own tongue, and had taken up what was then call... ...he sake of his conquering grandfather, and his brave and pious father. Few Normans were there whose hearts did not glow at the touch of those small ha... ...erly, “I know it. He told me it was the key to his greatest treasure.” The Normans heard this with great interest, and it was resolved that several of... ...ting in the key, it fitted, the lock turned, and the chest was opened. The Normans pressed eagerly to see their Duke’s greatest treasure. It was a rob... ...llotted work, and his son was old enough to take his place as ruler of the Normans, might he cease from his active duties, quit the turmoil of the wor... ...nour from his mother, a Provencal lady, than was yet to be found among the Normans. The Chaplain of Montemar had begun to teach him to read and write,... ...Very tired of all this did Richard grow, especially when he found that the Normans had made up their minds not to attempt a war against the wicked Cou... ...y to take the little Duke and Alberic to the nearest sheet of ice, for the Normans still prided themselves on excelling in skating, though they had lo... ...l of French, the hall and court swarm with them. Even if we could draw our Normans together, we should not be more than a dozen men, and what could we...

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...e- garding the danger that attends all attempts at subtilty with 7 Balzac Normans, she employed the inventive wit and slyness which Nature grants to ...

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...andy . Four generations had not sufficed to blend the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language and mutual intere... ...and to maintain a line of separation betwixt the descendants of the victor Normans and the vanquished Saxons. THE SUN WA S SETTING upon one of the ric... ...ws, or of wandering pilgrims, can be little else than to be converted into Normans before morning, to thy no small ease and comfort.” “The swine turne... ...rmans before morning, to thy no small ease and comfort.” “The swine turned Normans to my comfort!” quoth Gurth; “expound that to me, Wamba, for my bra... ... occupied by Cedric the Saxon, who, though but in rank a thane, or, as the Normans called him, a Franklin, felt, at the delay of his evening meal, an ... ...’’ “ Aymer, the Prior Aymer? Brian de Bois-Guilbert?” —mut- tered Cedric; “Normans both;—but Norman or Saxon, the hospitality of Rotherwood must not b... ...ght’s lodging and a night’s food; in the quality of guests, at least, even Normans must suppress their insolence.—Go, Hundebert,” he added, to a sort ... ...e wearing this badge to answer,” said Sir *There was no language which the Normans more formally separated from that of common life than the terms of ... ...Tristrem, famous for his tragic intrigue with the beautiful Ysolte. As the Normans reserved the amusement of hunting strictly to themselves, the terms...

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...work in Rochester , in the old days of the Romans, and the Saxons, and the Normans; and down to the times of King John, when the rugged castle—I will ...

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...Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds, And overlook their grafters? BOURBON: Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards! Mort de ma vie ! if they m...

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... the always pretty Miss Waddy (as Haco Sharpshooter), when a shot from the Normans kills Harold. The Fairy Edith hereupon comes forward, and finds his...

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...d that Harold the Saxon was alive and would bring them deliverance from us Normans. This has happened every au- tumn since Santlache fight.’ ‘But King... ...illed at Hastings,’said Una. ‘So it was said, and so it was believed by us Normans, but our Saxons always believed he would come again. That rumour di... ...hrines of England. The old man sits, Saxon fashion, head between fists. We Normans rest the chin on the left palm. ‘“Who answers for him?” said I. “If... ...p of wine. The old man drank, and beckoned behind him, and, before all the Normans, my Hugh bore away the empty cup, Saxon-fashion, upon the knee. “It... ... kept or promise broken,” he said, “Harold came near enough to breaking us Normans at Santlache. “ “Was it so close a fight, then?” said Henry. “A hai...

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...to the Clouds, 1388 And ouer- looke their Grafters? 1389 Brit. Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards: 1390 Mort du ma vie, if...

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...ved a hundred years after.’ ‘But Cedric remembered Torquilstone before the Normans came,’ said Anne. ‘No, no, he could not, though he had been told wh... ... a compliment.’ ‘How much interest Ivanhoe makes us take in the Saxons and Normans!’ said Anne. ‘And what nonsense it is to say that works of fiction ... ... exclaimed Dora, ‘William Rufus was not a Stuart, he was the second of the Normans.’ ‘Very likely, very likely, Dora, my dear,’ answered Harriet; ‘I h...

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...ding heart. By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France, The false revolting Normans thorough thee Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy Hath slain the...

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...the crown. William’s conduct at first was moderate. But the insolence of his Normans—” How are you getting on now, my dear?’ it continued, turning to...

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...im the crown. William’s conduct at first was moderate. But the insolence of his Normans—” How are you getting on now, my dear?’ it continued, turning t...

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...nd in the Roman de Rou 7 in the stirring account of the advance of the Normans under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings:— “T aillefer... ...n at the breaking of Arthur’s bread. At this table sat Britons, Frenchmen, Normans, Angevins, Flemings, Burgundians, and Loherins. Knights had their p...

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...rt of Henry the Sixt Shakespeare: First Folio 2255 The false reuolting Normans thorough thee, 2256 Disdaine to call vs Lord, and Piccardie 2...

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... of the lantern standing on the quay. He is worth a dozen of your ordinary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Medi- 100 ...

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... 119 Joseph Conrad ing on the quay. He is worth a dozen of your ordi- nary Normans or Bretons, but then, in the whole immense sweep of the Mediterrane...

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...at- tached, as now, to the individuals who bore them, he was called by the Normans the Lord de Vaux; and in English by the Saxons, who clung to their ... ...fore they were defaced with scars; his upper lip, after the fashion of the Normans, was covered with thick moustaches, which grew so long and luxurian...

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...lsely veils,—for Stirling’s tower Of yore the name of Snowdoun claims, And Normans call me James Fitz-James. Thus watch I o’er insulted laws, Thus lea...

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...ous things. It passed, however, through many vicissitudes. Pillaged by the Normans in the ninth century and by the Huguenots in the sixteenth, it re- ...

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...hom Kenilworth had been successively tenanted. ‘The Saxons, the Danes, the Normans, the Saintlowes, the Clintons, the Montforts, the Mortimers, the Pl... ... chanted the praises of Odin. 415 Sir Walter Scott Last came the knightly Normans, in their mail-shirts and hoods of steel, with all the panoply of c... ...f the hall, so that the Romans confronting the Britons, and the Saxons the Normans, seemed to look on each other with eyes of wonder, which presently ...

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...la, and Zernebock. Not having sub- mitted to the embraces of any polluting Normans, as poor Ulrica had done, and having assisted no parricide, the mil... ...t was impossible that after more than five centuries of close intercourse, Normans should remain Normans, and Saxons, Saxons. Perhaps after all her ne...

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...blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic suddenness; Normans not to be overreached in bargain: all now ani- mated with one noble...

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...Icelandic; its German- ism has still a peculiar Norse tinge. They too are “Normans,” 20 Thomas Carlyle Northmen,—if that be any great beauty!— Of the...

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...impossible to extract anything from the inscrutable answers of Bretons and Normans. “Galope-Chopine!” cried Mademoiselle de V erneuil, when Francine b...

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...and in these pages as Cloisterham. It was once possibly known to the Druids by another name, and certainly to the Romans by another, and to the Saxons...

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... remain veiled, unknown. As to my person and as to my “belongings,” as the Normans say, make yourself easy. I am at least as hand- some as the little ...

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...; but as soon as I let go he will howl again. I know him for a Norman, and Normans are obstinate.” In fact, tightly held as he was, Lubin endeavored s...

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.... At midnight the two travelers were at Dammartin, but it was then too late to make inquiries—the host of the Cygne de la Croix had gone to bed. The n...

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...t Diane saw no corpse at once so tall, so young, and so fair, though blond Normans and blue- blooded Franks, lads scarce sixteen and stalwart warriors...

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...always call them Lord Danes. He made friends himself with the Northmen, or Normans, who had settled in France, and married Emma, the daughter of their... ...f them rose out of the king—who had been brought up in Normandy—liking the Normans better than the English. They really were much cleverer and more se... ...of En- gland. This filled William with anger. He called all his fight- ing Normans together, fitted out ships, and sailed across the English Channel t... ...t won a great battle over these enemies when he heard that William and his Normans had landed, and he had to hurry the whole length of En- gland to me... ... was his own standard, with a fighting man em- broidered upon it. Then the Normans rode up on their war- horses to attack him, one brave knight going ... ...he heads of the English. Harold himself was pierced by one in the eye. The Normans charged the fence again, and broke through; and, by the time night ... ...t shows that a great deal had been taken from the English and given to the Normans. The king built castles, with immensely thick, strong walls, and lo... ...lls, and loop-hole windows, whence to shoot arrows; and here he placed his Normans to keep the English down. But the Normans were even more unruly tha... ...zags, and all manner of patterns round them. In the end, the coming of the Normans did the English much good, by brightening them up and making them l...

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...the refectory, when the schol- ars were at meat, to show the Saxon boys we Normans were not afraid of an Abbot. It was that very Saxon Hugh tempted me... ...wn from the oak wood above the King’s Hill yonder, and cried out that some Normans were driving off the swine there. “‘Norman or Saxon,” said I, “we m... ...“Better the devil we know than the devil we know not, till we can pack you Normans home.” And so, too, said his Sax- ons; and they laughed as we drove... ...ard. ‘I let the Saxons go their stubborn way, but when my own men-at-arms, Normans not six months in England, stood up and told me what was the custom... ...or thy life, well knowing that if any harm befell thee from his Saxons thy Normans would slay him without remedy. And this his Sax- ons know. Is it tr... ...e Aquila. “If I know men, thou art more faith- ful unsworn than a score of Normans I could name. Take Dallington, and join Sir Richard to fight me tom... ...ur,” said Hugh. “When De Aquila spoke even now, in the Hall, of Saxons and Normans, I saw Gil- bert write on a parchment, which he kept beside the Man... ...he kept beside the Manor- roll, that De Aquila said soon there would be no Normans left in England if his men-at-arms did their work aright. “ “‘Bones... ...before the Word of the Lord had come to me. A walled fortress possessed by Normans; in the midst a forty-foot tide-well out of which to remove secretl...

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...that event the ancient Saxon system of tenure was laid aside, and that the Normans, wherever they had lands granted to them, introduced the feodal sys... ...ature , altogether unlike those which were at this time established by the Normans. “Under the feodal system, the tenant originally held his lands ent...

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...sians and Macedonians had it for a flash. The Gauls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others, had it for a time. The Turks have it at this day, t...

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...ns shone in the throng, serene and self-possessed in their bliss; handsome Normans, with splendid figures; women of the south, with black hair and wel...

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...and that extremely inferior country, England, which was con- quered by the Normans and brought under the feudal sys- tem. But so soon as these old tra...

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...glish condiment to rectify the flavour of the stew. Now the number of Saxe-Normans riding out to meet and greet the Welshmen is declared to have not e...

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...Rue de Lappe. It is the usual start in life in his line of business. Jews, Normans, Auvergnats, and Savoyards, those four different races of men all h...

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... by holding them out relief in their necessity? It is you who are mean—you Normans—not we of the ancient race. Y ou have your vulgar measurement for g...

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... Scotchmen, two Welshmen, one Irishman, three Frenchmen (two of whom were Normans, and the third from Gascony,) one Dutchman, one Austrian, two or...

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...blooded Mountaineers of Jura; sharp Bretons, with their Gaelic suddenness; Normans not to be overreached in bargain: all now animated with one noblest...

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... could not give up the ball, and Meta found that she must go; but both the Normans spent a quiet evening with Dr. May and Ethel. Norman May had a bad ...