ARMAGNAC • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Armagnac

... centuries suffered from the same cause. The families of Lorraine, Bouillon, Enghien, Burgundy, the Guises, Longueville, the Counts of Armagnac, and other powerful vassals of France, paid but a nominal allegiance to the crown, and were really independent princes. Louis XI had done much to break their power. Richelieu continued the work, and under him France for the first time became consolidated into a whole. Had he lived, the work would ...

— Won by the Sword - A Story of the Thirty Years' War • G.A. Henty