English claims to the French throne English claims to the French throne From the 1340s to the 19th century, excluding two brief intervals in the 1360s and the 1420s, the kings and queens of England (and, later, of Great Britain) also claimed the throne of France. The claim dates from Edward III, who claimed the French throne in 1340 as the sororal nephew of the last direct Capetian, Charles IV. Edward and his heirs fought the Hundred Years' War to enforce this claim, and were briefly successful in the 1420s under Henry V and Henry VI, but the House of Valois, a cadet branch of the
In the Neolithic Age In the Neolithic Age "In the Neolithic Age" is a poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. It was published in the December 1892 issue of "The Idler" and in 1896 in his poetry collection "The Seven Seas". The poem is the source of the quotation: "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, / And every single one of them is right." The poem was published in the December 1892 issue of the literary magazine "The Idler" as the introduction to Kipling's article "My First Book", with the title "Primum Tempus". Kipling experimented with a variety of