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Long-lived delicacy of sentiment and conduct was rarer in those rough and rude times than heroic bursts of courage and devotion. Philip of Valois tried to afford some consolation and supply some remedy for the misfortune of the Calaisians banished from their town.
He had allowed a free passage to the poor Calaisians driven out by famine; he now fetched from London thirty-six burghers of position and three hundred others of inferior condition, with their wives and children, and he granted to the town thus depeopled and repeopled all such municipal and commercial privileges as were likely to attract new inhabitants thither.
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