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Show LONG WARS DUE TO WHISKER8. - Trivial Incident Led to Three Hun- dred Years of Fighting. 1 For ages beards woro tho delight of ancient beauties. Tho sight of a ' shaved chin pxclted sentiments of hor- -' i ror and aversion. To obey tho lnjunc- I Hons of his bishops, Louis VII. of . tH Franco cropped his hair a la pom pa- f dour and shaved off his luxuriant whiskers, Eleanor of Aqultanc, his , consort, found htm with this uncom- iH mon appenranco very ridiculous and very contomptlblo. Sho rovongod her- solf by becoming something moro than ' a coquette Tho king obtained a dt- vorco. Sho then married tho count of Anjou, who shortly aftorward ascend- ed tho French throne, and gavo him 1 as her marriage dower tho rich prov-inccs prov-inccs of Pol ton and Gulenno; and this was tho origin of thoso wars which for 300 years ravaged Franco and which cost tho French nation 11 3,000,000 men. All of which, probably, f had novcr taken placo If Louis VII. . . hud not been so ra3h as to shavo oft y H his whiskers, by which ho mado him- solf so disgusting to tho fair Eleanor. t |