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The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 11 [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. 11 [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. 11 [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

Monday the 2d of June, the dauphiness made her public entry into
Paris about five o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by the lady of
Beaujeu, and many others. She entered by the gate of St Denis, where
three stages were erected: on the uppermost was a representation of
the king, as sovereign: on the second were two beautiful children,
dressed in white damask, to represent the dauphin and the lady Margaret
of Flanders: on the lower one were representations of the lord and
lady of Beaujeu. On each side of the different personages were hung
escutcheons of their arms emblazoned. There were likewise four figures,
to represent the peasantry, the clergy, the tradesmen and the nobility,
each of whom addressed a couplet to her as she passed. All the streets
were hung with tapestry, and there were other pageants allegorical
to the dauphin and dauphiness. In honour of her arrival, all the
prisoners in the different gaols were set at liberty, and several new
corporations of trades were made.

On the 7th of June was a great thunder storm at Paris between eight
and nine at night. A flash of lightning set fire to the steeple of
the church of St Genevieve, burnt all the wood-work, which had lasted
nine hundred years, and melted all the covering of lead, and the bells
within the steeple. It was supposed that one hundred weight of lead on
the steeple was destroyed,--so that it was pitiful to see the damages
done.

During the month of July, the marriage-feast of the dauphin and the
lady Margaret of Flanders was celebrated in the town of Amboise; at
which were present the most noble persons of the kingdom, who had come
thither by the king's orders, from the cities and principal towns of
his realm.




CHAP. XXXIV.

 THE HOLY AMPULLA IS BROUGHT FROM THE CHURCH OF SAINT REMY AT RHEIMS
 TO THE KING OF FRANCE, WHEN DANGEROUSLY ILL, AT PLESSIS LE PARC.--THE
 DEVOUT DEATH OF LOUIS XI.--HE IS BURIED IN THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY AT
 CLERY.--MAY GOD PARDON HIS SOUL!


In the course of this year, the king determined to have the holy
ampulla brought to him from Rheims: which had descended filled with
oil, by the Divine grace, by means of a white dove, in the year 500, to
good St Remy of Rheims, to anoint and consecrate king Clovis of France,
the first Christian king, who died in the same year,--and his body is
interred in the church of St Genevieve at Paris.

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