FRANCE throws off the power of England, i. 48;
plundered for many years by the nobility of England, 182;
invaded by the English, 238, 251 (see Edward IV.);
England a check to, 379;
taxation of, in the fifteenth century, 386, 387;
women excluded from the throne of, ii. 14, 16;
the founders of their different dynasties, 289;
its fertility in 1460, 298;
invaded by the Burgundians, 312;
Edward IV. makes preparations for invading, 360.
France and Spain, league between, ii. 359.
Franchemont, the country of, i. 153;
desperate attack of, on the duke of Burgundy’s troops, 153-156;
the hilly country of, 162;
the dwellings burnt down, and the country devastated, 163;
extreme cold in, _ib._
Francis, duke, i. 397.