France

Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

• relationship: Though Tacitus expressly notices one tribe or confederacy, the Sitones, within the compass of his Germania, ruled by a woman, as an exceptional case, it was contrary to the feeling of mediaeval Chr... (The Danish History, > Books I-Ix > Customary Law.)

  "Though Tacitus expressly notices one tribe or confederacy, the Sitones, within the compass of his Germania, ruled by a woman, as an exceptional case, it was contrary to the feeling of mediaeval Christendom for a woman to be emperor; it was not till late in the Middle Ages that Spain saw a queen regnant, and France has never yet allowed such rule."

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: It has never occurred to me to buy ready-made shoes in France or Germany, but I know a lady as Welsh as I am, who has often bought shoes in France, and her experience is, that it is much easier for he (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)

  "It has never occurred to me to buy ready-made shoes in France or Germany, but I know a lady as Welsh as I am, who has often bought shoes in France, and her experience is, that it is much easier for her to get shoes there to fit her than in England, and for the very reason which I have already suggested, namely, that the instep in English shoes is lower than in French ones."

• attestation: The latter was eventually to assert with varying fortune on several fields of battle in this country the claims of his elder kinsman, who, by virtue of his memory in France, would seem to have rendere (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VIII: Welsh Cave Legends)

  "The latter was eventually to assert with varying fortune on several fields of battle in this country the claims of his elder kinsman, who, by virtue of his memory in France, would seem to have rendered it easy for the later Owen to enter into friendly relations with the French court of his day*."

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: And when I have done thus, I will afterwards come home, and get ready my army, and pass into France,. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And when I have done thus, I will afterwards come home, and get ready my army, and pass into France,"

• attestation: Afterwards he took the way that in toward France lay. Then bade he his command to all his men, that fare wheresoever they should fare, they should take no whit, unless they might it obtain with right. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And afterwards he took the way that in toward France lay."

• attestation: That shall be to-morrow, before our men, that fight we shall by ourselves, and fall the worst of us! And whether (which) of us that goeth aback, and this fight will forsake, be he in each land proclaimed for a recreant! (Layamon's Brut)

  "that shall be to-morrow, before our men, that fight we shall by ourselves, and fall the worst of us!"

• attestation: Nine years he held France freely in hand, and afterwards no longer the land he governed. (Layamon's Brut)

  "nine years he held France freely in hand, and afterwards no longer the land he governed."

• attestation: They proceeded throughout France, and the folk marched after them;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "They proceeded throughout France, and the folk marched after them;"

• attestation: they went out of France into Burgundy. (Layamon's Brut)

  "they went out of France into Burgundy."