The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 05 [of 13] : $b containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countriesMonstrelet, Enguerrand de
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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 05 [of 13] : $b containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de
Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Sources; France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
This cry brought great multitudes of the populace to join them,--and
they hastened to attack the houses of the ministers of state. One party
went to the king's hotel of St Pol, where they broke down doors and
windows, and were not satisfied until they had spoken to the king, who
was forced to grant them all their demands. They, shortly after, made
him mount his horse, as well as the brother to the king of Cyprus, and
ride with them through the streets of Paris.
Another party went to the hotel of the constable to seize him; but
he had been advertised in time of their intent, and had escaped in
disguise to the house of a poor man adjoining his own. Some went to
the hotels of the chancellor and Raymonnet de la Guerre, whom they
arrested. Tanneguy du Chatel, provost of Paris, hearing the uproar,
hastened to the hotel of the dauphin, and, wrapping him up only in a
blanket, carried him to the bastille of St Anthony, whither numbers of
their friends had retired on the first appearance of the insurrection.
During this night and the two following days, the burgundian lords,
and the populace of Paris, plundered the houses of the ministers, and
of their favourites and adherents, whom they robbed of every thing. An
infinite number of prisoners were made, and confined in the palace, the
Louvre, the Chatelet, and in other places: among them were the bishops
of Bayeux, Senlis and Coutances, sir Hector de Chartres, sir Enguerran
de Marcoignet and others.
The lord de l'Isle-Adam went himself to the hotel de Bourbon, where he
found Charles de Bourbon, then about fifteen years of age, whom, having
awakened, he demanded which party he was of: he replied, "Of the
king's party;" upon which, the lord de l'Isle-Adam made him rise, and
conducted him to the king, with whom he remained during all the time
these sad events were passing.
Great part of the men at arms attached to the constable and to Tanneguy
du Chatel had retired within the bastille of St Anthony, and with them
John Louvet, president of the parliament of Provence, master Robert
Masson, with numbers of high rank.
The cardinals de Bar and di San Marco, with the archbishop of Rheims,
were also made prisoners, and their horses seized; but at the
intercession of the bishop of Paris, and because they had advised
peace, they were set at liberty, and had their effects returned to them.
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