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the French nation. The English nation, which was subdivided into two 

 tribes, that of islanders and that of continentals, embraced all the northern 

 and eastern parts of Europe beyond the frontiers of France. But when 



Fig. 14. A School of Mendicant Monks: a Birching. Miniature of the Manuscript Xo. 21,2*52 

 in the Burgundy Library, Brussels (Fiftoonth Century). 



the two peoples separated from each other by the channel became violent 

 antagonists, and the name of England had got to be an object of general 

 execration for Frenchmen, the nation which for more than a century had 



