Our Fathers Have Told Us: Part I. The Bible of AmiensRuskin, John
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Our Fathers Have Told Us: Part I. The Bible of Amiens
Ruskin, John
Cathédrale d'Amiens; France -- History
Faust, Goethe's, 8; 35. ii. 21; 80. iii. 44.
Favine, Andre (historian, 1620) on Frankish character, 40. ii. 30, 32.
Feud, etymology of, 101 n. iv. 17 n.
Florence, Duomo of, 88. iv. 1.
Folly, sculpture of, Amiens Cathedral, 121. iv. 41.
Fortitude, sculpture of, Amiens Cathedral, 118. iv. 41.
Fox, Charles, his boast of England, 59. iii. 5.
" Dr., quaker, preaching at Matlock, 83 n. iii. 48.
France, Amiens and Calais, country between, 2.
" architecture of, no stone saw used, 89. iv. 2 n.
" books on: Pictorial History of, 48. ii. 43.
" " "Villes de France," 52 n. ii. 50.
" cathedrals of, the, 88. iv. 1.
" their outside "the wrong side of the stuff," 96. iv. 8.
" restoration of, 130. iv. 47.
" churches of, the first, at Amiens, 6.
" colours of the shield of, 43. ii. 48.
" early tribes of, 6, 8.
" and the Franks, 7.
" geography and geology of northern, 10.
" the Isle of, Paris, 138. iv. 58.
" Kings of (Philip the Wise, Louis VIII., St. Louis), 100. iv. 16.
" map of, showing early divisions, 8.
" Merovingian dynasty, 21.
" peoples of, divided by climates, 10.
" provinces of, 10, 11.
" Prussia, war with, 33. ii. 17.
" rivers of, the five, 8.
(See below, "French").
Franchise, 38 n. ii. 28.
Francisca (Frankish weapon), 42. ii. 32.
Frank, meaning of the word, 'brave' rather than 'free,' 37-8. ii. 27-8.
Frankenberg, 36. ii. 24-5.
Frankness, meaning of, 6; 38. ii. 28.
" opposite of shyness, 39. ii. 28.
Franks, the, agriculture, sport, and trade of, 45. ii. 37.
" appearance of, 43. ii.
" character of, 32, 44, 45, ii. 15, 35, 38.
" etymology of word, 42. ii. 32.
" hair, manner of wearing the, by, 45, 125 n. ii. 36, iv. 43 n.
" and Holland, 40. ii. 30.
" and Julian (defeated by him, 358 A.D.), 41 n. 44. ii. 31, 35.
" Kings of the, 7.
" modern, 21.
" race of, originally German, from Waldeck, 33, 36. ii. 15, 17, 24.
" religion of, under S. Louis, 21.
" rise of, 250 A.D., 7, 8; 33. ii. 17.
" settled in France, 6.
" extension of power, to the Loire, 8.
" " " to the Pyrenees, 8.
" Gaul becomes France, 64. iii. 16.
" the Rhine refortified against them, 38 n., 41. ii. 28, 31.
" tribes of, Gibbon on the, 33-4. ii. 18.
" weapons of the, Achon and Francisca, 42. ii. 32, 33.
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