Excerpt from History of France, Vol. 2: From the Death of Louis XI; Reign of Charles VIII, 1493 1498 A health which demanded incessant care had left small opportunity for any scheme of education to correct innate defects of mind and character. Charles had spent his boyhood at Amboise in a seclusion unbroken by that juvenile experience of public life through which Princes are accustomed to serve their apprenticeship to the throne and he had...
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