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And interestingly, this one is built in the southeast corner of the Roman walls of that town.

And then there are also potential towers at Bayeux, at Evreux.

And in the immediate pre-conquest period, so 1000 to 1066, great towers pop up at various places.

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They were, their very presence there, that's where they lived, but their defense of Paris reflects tensions between urban France and conservative rural France.

The armies that they were opposing, the French armies, were largely staffed by peasants from conservative areas, or from National Guards brought in from towns like Vannes or Evreux, or all sorts of places, are brought in.

And so, the Commune, it's semi-proletarian.

They're mostly working people.

In the course of a year or two, moreover, and while his own realm continued in this unsettled and distracted state, William became involved in what was almost a quarrel with King Henry himself.

When he was fifteen years old, which was two or three years after his return from Paris to Normandy, Henry sent directions to William to come to a certain town called Evreux, situated about half-way between Falaise and Paris, and just within the confines of Normandy, to do homage to him there for his duchy.

There was some doubt among William's counsellors whether it would be most prudent to obey or disobey this command.

They finally concluded that it was best to obey.

Grand preparations were accordingly made for the expedition, and, when all was ready, the young duke was conducted in great state, and with much pomp and parade, to meet his sovereign.

The interview between William and his sovereign, and the ceremonies connected with it, lasted some days.

In the course of this time William remained at Evreux, and was in some sense, of course, in Henry's power.

William, having been so long in Henry's court as a mere boy, accustomed all the time to look up and to obey Henry as a father, regarded him somewhat in that light now, and approached him with great deference and respect.