Note 837 — Chapter XIII · THE NEGOTIATIONS OF DUKE WILLIAM.[752] January–August, 1066.
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Compare the Diets of Poland, at once the most aristocratic and the most democratic of all assemblies. Compare also the whole history of the States of Britanny, so well traced out by the Count of Carné, in his États de Bretagne. The second order, the Noblesse, was always more independent than either the Clergy or the Burghers, and its internal constitution was that of a Landesgemeinde.