Project Gutenberg 2025-10-14 Public domain in the USA. 5415 Williams, Henry Smith 1863 1943 The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 11 : $b France, 843-1715 $aNew York :$bThe Outlook Company, $c1905. David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The historians'' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 11…" by Henry Smith Williams is a historical compendium written in the early 20th century. This volume surveys the history of France from the later Carolingians to the death of Louis XIV, blending political narrative with religious, social, and cultural developments as distilled from numerous classic authorities. The opening of the volume recounts the collapse of Carolingian power under relentless Northmen raids and internal strife, portraying Charles the Bald’s weakness, the ferocity and tactics of the Vikings, and the famed pirate Hastings. It explains how the Edict of Mersen and the capitulary of Quierzy hastened the transformation of benefices into hereditary fiefs, birthing the feudal order and proliferating private castles. The siege of Paris (885–886) highlights civic resilience under Bishop Gozlin and Count Eudes against a vast Viking host, contrasted with imperial impotence, and foreshadows the rise of the Capetians. The narrative then traces Rollo’s investiture in Normandy, the fragmentation of royal authority, and the power plays of Robert, Rudolf, Héribert, and Hugh the Great, through Louis IV and Lothair, to the election of Hugh Capet and his early struggles with Charles of Lorraine—depicting a France where noble power eclipses the crown and the church often arbiters the realm. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/historianshistor11will/page/n09 20121101134728williams 1905 us en World history D Text 2624596 2025-11-30T10:28:25.082110 text/html 2554359 2025-10-14T17:53:17 text/html 7219746 2025-11-30T10:28:56.294013 application/epub+zip 7264583 2025-11-30T10:28:30.735122 application/epub+zip 1175895 2025-11-30T10:28:27.724123 application/epub+zip 7985837 2025-11-30T10:29:14.784373 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 7865080 2025-11-30T10:28:52.865101 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2348445 2025-11-30T10:28:19.950147 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 2328341 2025-10-14T17:53:17 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15340 2025-11-30T10:29:14.976374 application/rdf+xml 14123 2025-11-30T10:28:28.092121 image/jpeg 2642 2025-11-30T10:28:27.909108 image/jpeg 6864635 2025-11-30T10:28:25.645165 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia