Excerpt from History of Pope Boniface VIII and His Times: With Notes and Documentary Evidence, in Six Books<br><br>To write a complete history of the human family, it will suffice then to discern these generating facts; because from a study of them every other fact will be revealed, being made clear by the light from the generating fact. Hence, turning our attention to events which form the history of society from the fall of the Latin Empire to our own times, we find three events which merit the name of revolutions; namely, the terrible invasion of the Barbarians into Europe; the quarrel of Philip the Fair with the Holy See; and the revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, commonly called the French Revolution.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.