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Some of them are of special importance for English history. For the Hundred Years' War the French chroniclers are indispensable, especially for military history. Luce's careful "sommaire et commentaire critique" often affords means of checking Froissart by other sources. The first edition, written about 1373, at the request of Count Robert of Namur, is inspired by an English bias.
" 'Les six syllabes sont le sommaire de toute doctrine et l'apre empire de neige, sera rempli de cette doctrine par la force de ces six syllabes Om ma ni pad me houm.
If I may be permitted a French phrase, I will say un peu sommaire quite unlike the beautiful simplifications of Raphael or Ingres, or indeed any of the great masters. They could simplify without becoming rudimentary; Chavannes cannot. And now a passing word about the handicraft, the manner of using the brush.
Humbert, recently claimed that she had her "millions" from this Regnier. A sharp criticism on Bazaine's conduct at Metz is given in a pamphlet, Réponse au Rapport sommaire sur les Opérations de l'Armée du Rhin, by one of his Staff Officers. This capitulation, the greatest recorded in the history of civilised nations, dealt a death-blow to the hopes of France.
In 1610 a book was published discussing the origin of the family of the Maid of Orleans; a work of little value. In 1612 one of the descendants of a brother of Joan of Arc Charles du Lys published a slight work called Traité sommaire sur le nom, les armes, la naissance et la parenté de la Pucelle et de ses frères.
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