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An example of pre-professional history, the Tales of a Grandfather chronicles the French royalty's dynastic concerns and principal military-political engagements with foreign powers from 1412 to 1512. Scott's narrative opens with Henry V's preparations for war with France and an account of the persisting rivalry between the houses of Orleans and of Burgundy.
Of particular interest is Scott's description of the murder of John the Fearless at Montereau in 1419 and his tracing of that event's disastrous effects through the fifteenth century.
Scott drew on standard sources, but the interpretation of the material and the historical vision are his own. Modern readers will be especially engaged by his interpretation of the character of Joan of Arc. Readers will also be interested to compare Scott's treatment of history and its leading figures with his novels set in the same period and country, namely, Quentin Durward and Anne of Geierstein.
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History, Juvenile literature, Kings and rulers, France, history, France, kings and rulers, FictionPeople
Otto Schulze (1851-)Times
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Tales of a grandfather: the history of France (second series)
1996, Northern Illinois University Press
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0875802087 9780875802084
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Tales of a grandfather: being stories taken from Scottish history : humbly inscribed to Hugh Littlejohn, Esq. : in three vols. : third series
1830, Printed [by Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co. Edinburgh; Simpkin and Marshall, London; and John Cumming, Dublin
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Tales of a grandfather: being stories taken from Scottish history.
1828, Carey, Lea & Carey
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