For these reasons Louis the Twelfth, King of France, quickly occupied Milan, and as quickly lost it; and to turn him out the first time it only needed Lodovico's own forces; because those who had opened the gates to him, finding themselves deceived in their hopes of future benefit, would not endure the ill-treatment of the new prince.
The general reasons for the first have been discussed; it remains to name those for the second, and to see what resources he had, and what any one in his situation would have had for maintaining himself more securely in his acquisition than did the King of France.
[*] Louis XII, King of France, "The Father of the People," born 1462, died 1515.
[+] Charles VIII, King of France, born 1470, died 1498.
By one of the provisions of the treaty, Louisburg, which the New-Englanders had been at so much pains to take, was restored to the King of France.
Those who remained behind always cherished a belief that the King of France would never make peace with England till his poor Acadians were restored to their country and their homes."
Parry," replied the young man ironically, "don't you know that this is the King of France visiting his good city of Blois?
"You know," resumed the unknown, "that my mother and my sister, whilst all this is going on in honor of the King of France, have neither money nor bread; you know that I myself shall be poor and degraded within a fortnight, when all Europe will become acquainted with what you have told me.
Philippe, son of France, take your place on that bed; Philippe, sole king of France, resume the blazonry that is yours!
Silence, that mortal enemy of restless hearts, and of ambitious minds, shrouded in the thickness of its gloom during the remainder of the night the future king of France, who lay there sheltered beneath his stolen crown.
But I have the King of France's commission in my pocket, which would aye be some protection."
Whiles I pick up a few lads to serve the King of France: recruits, ye see; and that's aye a little money.