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... France and by Napoleon I , tend to obscure the fact that from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century France was the victim of a deliberate policy of encirclement by the Habsburg powers . In the south , pos- session of ...
... France and by Napoleon I , tend to obscure the fact that from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century France was the victim of a deliberate policy of encirclement by the Habsburg powers . In the south , pos- session of ...
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... France incorporated the cities and bishoprics of Metz , Toul , and Verdun in Lorraine ( French protectorates since 1552 ) and added to them the suzerainty over the secular vassals of the three bishops . France also obtained the ill ...
... France incorporated the cities and bishoprics of Metz , Toul , and Verdun in Lorraine ( French protectorates since 1552 ) and added to them the suzerainty over the secular vassals of the three bishops . France also obtained the ill ...
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... France was moving rapidly toward complete social equal- ity . Breaking with the older liberal generation , he no long- er compared France with the English constitutional mon- archy but with democratic America . Of more personal concern ...
... France was moving rapidly toward complete social equal- ity . Breaking with the older liberal generation , he no long- er compared France with the English constitutional mon- archy but with democratic America . Of more personal concern ...
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