which he, the confessor, procured a copy before the King’s death, and which he translated from French into Latin. Again, the widow of Louis X. left at her death a collection of forty-one volumes, and the widow of Charles le Bel a collection of twenty volumes; but in neither of them is there any mention of Joinville’s History. It is not till we come to the reign of Charles V. (1364-80) that Joinville’s book occurs in the inventory of the royal library, drawn up in 1373 by the King’s valet de chambre, Gilles Mallet. It is entered as “La vie de Saint Loys, et les fais de son voyage d’outre mer;” and in the margin of the catalogue there is a note, “Le Roy l’a par devers soy,”—“The King has it by him.” At the time of his death the volume had not yet been returned to its proper place in the first hall of the Louvre; but in the inventory drawn up in 1411 it appears again, with the following description:(30)— “Une grant partie de la vie et des fais de Monseigneur Saint Loys que fist faire le Seigneur de Joinville; très-bien escript et historié. Convert de cuir rouge, à empreintes, à deux fermoirs d’argent. Escript de lettres de forme en françois à deux coulombes; commençant au deuxième folio ‘et porceque,’ et au derrenier ‘en tele maniere.’ ” This means, “A great portion of the life and actions of St. Louis which the Seigneur de Joinville had made, very well written and illuminated. Bound in red leather, tooled, with two silver clasps. Written in formal letters in French, in two columns, beginning on the second folio with the words ‘_et porceque_,’ and on the last with ‘_en tele maniere_.’ ”