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less soldiery. In France falconry culminated under King Francois I. (six¬ 
teenth centnr}^), but it continued to be cultivated until interrupted by the French 
Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. In 1861 the Empress Eugenie under¬ 
took, in company with Marshal Bazaine, the Prince of Maskwa and the Baron de 
Pierre, to revive the institution, but without any permanent results. A French 
account, belonging to the earlier half of the fourteenth century, relates how a 
falcon brought about a war between England and France. Robert von Artois 
having been batfished from France, sought the Court of England. While 
there he learned to hunt the 
heron, and resolved to stir up 
King Edward to the assertion 
falcon Training. 
the osprey, or fish hawk ( Aslur palumboris). 
of England’s rights in, France. Courtier-like, he had a heron served for 
the royal table, and when it appeared, dilated upon the heron’s perfect 
symbolism of men who, afraid of their own shadow, failed to assert their 
rights. The monarch made the application and swore by the heron no longer 
to be diverted from an attack upon’ France. Robert von Artois next took a 
solemn vow that he would never return unless victory perched upon Edward’s 
banner. The Earl of Salisbury, catching the infection, swore that he and 
his would follow and support the king. Then the lady-love of Salisbury, put¬ 
ting her finger upon his eye, prayed that if false to his oath his eye might 
