Don Juan and Charles V (1912) Online
The story begins with the abdication of Charles V of Spain, whose vast and scattered territories had cursed his country with a foreign policy in nearly every corner of Europe. His Austrian dominions formed the bulwark which restrained the Moslem flood from deluging Eastern Europe, his galleys kept the Mediterranean a Christian sea, Flanders gave him a frontier regarded with jealous eyes by France, and the vast new dominions which had fallen under his sway in this country might have made our progress impossible during early centuries of our activity. There were ceaseless wars with the Turk on one hand and with the rising power of Protestantism on the other, while he had thorny problems at home. He fought his battles with great energy until middle age, then fell into despair from which he sought relief in religious mysticism. The careworn emperor declares: "Wishing to consecrate the remaining years of our life to the saving of our soul in the monastery of Saint Just, we hereby abdicate ...
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 | Claude Garry | ||
| Paul Capellani |
Original French title undetermined.