But it was possible that Miss Varley felt no more curiosity as to these things than the Crevequers as to the angevin tombs in Santa Chiara.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
The strong hand of the Norman and angevin kings welded the whole country into a nation, and on that foundation were built the solid structures of a national Common Law, a national Parliament, and a long series of national statutes.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
It is not an English race that reigns in England; it is a German family which succeeded to a Dutch prince, as the latter succeeded a Scotch family which had succeeded an angevin family, that had replaced a Norman family, which had expelled a family of usurping Saxons.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh