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...lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When he died, at 60, he left a united France and a dynasty that lasted for 300 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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