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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 09 [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. 09 [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

Name: The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 09 [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
Author: Monstrelet, Enguerrand de

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de

Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Sources; France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453

The siege of Caen. The king of France,
  attended by the king of Sicily and his
  son, the duke of Calabria, appear before
  it with a large army. The English,
  after sustaining much damage from the
  batteries, surrender the town and castle
  of Caen                                                 123


  CHAP. XXI.

  The king of France makes his entry into
  Caen, and is nobly received there. The
  English surrender Falaise. Poton de
  Saintrailles is appointed governor of it.
  Domfront is reduced to the king's
  obedience                                               131


  CHAP. XXII.

  The decease of the duke of Brittany, and
  of the lord Giles his brother, whom he
  had cruelly put to death before his
  decease. Cherbourg is besieged by sea and
  land, and is taken by the French                        136


  CHAP. XXIII.

  The author particularises the valour of
  several of the nobles in the conquest of
  Normandy. The king of France sends
  the count de Penthievre, as his lieutenant,
  into Guienne                                            143


  CHAP. XXIV.

  The lord d'Orval defeats the men of Bordeaux.
  Duke Peter of Brittany does
  homage to the king of France. The
  duke of Burgundy attempts to lay a
  tax on salt throughout Flanders                         154


  CHAP. XXV.

  The king appoints the count de Dunois his lieutenant-general
  in Guienne, who besieges
  Mont-Guyon. It surrenders to him.
  He lays siege to the town of Blaye, which
  is taken by storm. The castle capitulates               159


  CHAP. XXVI.

  The greater part of the towns and castles
  in the duchy of Guienne enter into
  treaties for their surrender, with the exception
  of Bayonne. Bordeaux surrenders                         166


  CHAP. XXVII.

  The city of Bayonne is besieged by the
  counts de Foix and de Dunois, lieutenants-general
  to the king. It surrenders. The
  regulations made in consequence. Pope
  Nicholas marries the emperor of Germany
  to the daughter of the king of
  Portugal. The events that take place in
  England                                                 180


  CHAP. XXVIII.

  Jacques Coeur is arrested and confined.
  The reasons of it. The king of France
  declares war against the duke of Savoy,
  but peace is made, by the mediation
  of the cardinal de Touteville. Lord
  Shrewsbury regains Bordeaux from the
  French                                                  196


  CHAP. XXIX.

  The men of Ghent besiege Oudenarde.
  The duke of Burgundy sends an army
  against them. The Picards conquer the
  Pont d'Espieres from the Ghent men,
  and kill many of them                                   202


  CHAP. XXX.

  The count d'Estampes, with the aid of
  the Picards alone, raises the siege of
  Oudenarde, and defeats the Ghent men,
  without the knowledge of the duke of
  Burgundy                                                205


  CHAP. XXXI.

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