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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 491 — X. OF THE SOVEREIGN AND THE STATE.487

Henri Van Laun translation

Dijon, the former capital of Burgundy, had been besieged in 1515 by thirty thousand men, who retired after the conclusion of a treaty of peace which the king, Francis I., did not ratify. Corbie, a town in Picardy, was taken when Burgundy and Picardy were invaded by the Imperials in 1636.

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