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We formerly owned and cultivated the parcels of land that the son of Clovis newly joined as benefices to the salic and military domains that the Frankish count Neroweg previously held from his father by the right of conquest." "Did the count, accordingly, strip you of your fields and houses?" "Would to heaven, dear hermit, that he had done so!" "Your answer is strange!"
Now, the race of Lothaire is extinct, therefore you are the only true heirs of the throne." "What do you say to that, brother?" cried the cardinal. "I say, that unluckily there exists in France a law they call the Salic law, which destroys all our pretensions." "I expected that objection, monseigneur," said David, but what is the first example of the Salic law?"
Bah! diable, no, Meester Deeck, replied the Frenchman; we give, in France, no liberty except to the ladi. Yes, yes, to the women, I know, said Richard, that is your Salic law. I read, sir, all kinds of books; of France, as well as England; of Greece, as well as Rome.
"Women ruled all; and ministers of state Were at the doors of women forced to wait, Women, who we oft as sovereigns graced the land, But never governed well at second-hand." He touches the very kernel of the matter, and all history is on his side. The Salic Law excluded women from the throne of France, "the kingdom of France being too noble to be governed by a woman," as it said.
Francis had never married, having been robbed of his intended bride, the Archduchess Marie-Louise, by her betrothal to Napoleon. What simpler than to marry the eldest of the Sardinian princesses to her uncle, abrogate the Salic law, and calmly await the desired consummation of an Austrian prince, by right of his wife, occupying the Sardinian throne?
Of course it is preposterous to suppose that she traces her descent from a king through a mere bowl of punch, and her being still the president of the Selected Salic Scions is proof irrefutable that her claim rests upon a more solid foundation. XXIV: Post Scriptum I think that John Mayrant, Jr., is going to look like his mother.
Spain will withdraw her Minister and have only a Chargé d'Affaires at Lisbon if Don Miguel will not grant the amnesty. France does not remonstrate against the abolition of the Salic Law in Spain, as she precluded herself by treaty from the succession. Saw Mr. Downie on the part of Mr. Chippendale, the man who was removed by the Sign Manual from the service of the India Company.
For the first offence, by the Salic law, there was a fine of fifteen sols; and should a man be taken more than once in fault, or circumstances aggravate the colour of his guilt, he might be whipped, branded, or hanged. There was a hangman over at Melun, and, I doubt not, a fine tall gibbet hard by the town gate, where Jacques might see his fellows dangle against the sky as he went to market.
Philip of Valois thus found himself the champion of succession in the female line in Brittany, whilst he was himself reigning in France by virtue of the Salic law, and Edward III. took up in Brittany the defence of succession in the male line which he was disputing and fighting against in France.
Its effects were first visible in the various codes of law which the barbarous nations promulgated. Such are the Salic, the Ripuarian, the Alemannic, the Burgundian, the Visigothic, and the Lombard laws.
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