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The shaping of France

by Isaac Asimov

This history examines the development of France from the end of the Carolingian era and the rise of the Capetian dynasty in the late ninth century to the middle of the fourteenth century. It traces political transformations through to the Hundred Years' War.

Accession 10696 ISBN 0395138914 Publisher Houghton Mifflin
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