1853 King Philippe Auguste, -1st King of France. 1stEd In French. Engravings

Description: 1853 King Philippe Auguste, -1st King of France. 1stEd In French. Engravings Philippe Auguste by M. Todiere Mame et Cie, Tours, 1853. First edition. In French. Embossed leather-like cloth hard covers, octavo, gilt spine titles and decoration, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, 372 pages, frontispiece and three additional full-page engraved illustrations with tissue guards by Girardet. A biography of the first King of France. ?Philip II, called Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste; 21 August 1165 ? 14 July 1223) was a King of France from the House of Capet who reigned from 1180 to 1223. Philip's predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks, but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French monarch to style himself king of France. The son of King Louis VII and his third wife, Adèle of Champagne, he was originally nicknamed "God-given" because he was the first son of Louis VII, born late in his father's life.[1] Philip was given the nickname "Augustus" by the chronicler Rigord for having extended the Crown lands of France so remarkably. After a twelve-year struggle with the Plantagenet dynasty in the Anglo-French War of 1202-14, Philip broke up the large Angevin Empire presided over by the crown of England and defeated a coalition of his rivals (German, Flemish and English) at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214. This victory would have a lasting impact on western European politics: the authority of the French king became unchallenged, while the English King John was forced by his barons to sign the Magna Carta and deal with a rebellion against him aided by Philip, the First Barons' War. The military actions surrounding the Albigensian Crusade helped prepare the expansion of France southward. Philip did not participate directly in these actions, but he allowed his vassals and knights to help carry it out. Philip transformed France from a small feudal state into the most prosperous and powerful country in Europe. He checked the power of the nobles and helped the towns to free themselves from seigniorial authority, granting privileges and liberties to the emergent bourgeoisie. He built a great wall around Paris ("the Wall of Philip II Augustus"), re-organized the French government and brought financial stability to his country.?

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