Excerpt from Ascanio, Vol. 1 of 2

The author depicts the king rather as be ap peared to the world before what has been called the legend of the Roi Chevalier, - that is to say, the long prevailing idea that Francois I. Was the most chivalrous monarch who ever sat upon a European throne, - had been modified by the inde pendent researches of those who have not feared to go behind the writings of the old and well tutored chroniclers whose works have formed the basis of most modern histories, chroniclers who seem to have been guided by Cardinal Riche lieu's famous remark to an aspiring historian, apropos of certain animadversions upon the char acter of Louis XL, that it is treason to discuss the actions of a king who has been dead only two centuries.

The result of these researches is thus summed up by Miss Pardoe in the same Preface.

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