Identifier: romanceofmonacoi00mayn_0 (find matches)
Title: The romance of Monaco and its rulers
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Mayne, Ethel Colburn, -1941
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Publisher: New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ivileges that had been granted to the people, andthey, still gazing at that naked sword, submittedlike lambs. Genoa was bearing out the well-wornproverb of the woman and the walnut-tree, as indeedshe had made it her business to bear out all the well-worn proverbs about women. Louis inflicted everyhumiliation upon her : no trace of independence wasleft—even her money was struck with the FrenchKings image and superscription. But Genoa escapedlightly by comparison with Lodovico Sforza,who was brought to Lyons in the broad light ofday, amid a jeering crowd, and then imprisonedfor ten years in a sort of iron cage, refused allbooks (he had pleaded for a volume of Dante), allwriting materials—and left to die in utter despair,undistracted by any human solace. We must now, with amused regret, take leave ofMiladi Genoa. Not ours to know for how long thewalnut-tree method proved salutary. Her historyand that of Monaco have henceforward nothing incommon. They had been intimately connected for
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p. 150) LOUIS THE TWELFTH,King of France. The Age of Assassinations 151 more than three centuries; for the future, theGrimaldi town will live a more personal life, but not aless agitated one—and that for many years to come. This period of the Grimaldi story may be calledthe Age of Assassinations. Lucien had killed hisbrother John in 1505 ; in 1508, the Bueil branchlost its chief by the same violent end. GeorgeGrimaldi, Baron de Bueil, had been conspiring withLouis XII against his suzerain, Charles III of Savoy.Louis wanted Charles to join the infamous Leagueof Cambrai, which had for its aim the destructionof Venice, and Charles indignantly refused. TheFrench King, much annoyed, stirred up feelingagainst him in the Comte of Nice, and succeeded incorrupting George Grimaldi.1 But the conspiracywas discovered, and George was summoned to theCourt of Savoy to give an account of his behaviour.Instead of obeying, he shut himself up in the Castleof Bueil, and sent his brother John to Provenc

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