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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

[A.D. 1484.]

CHAP. XXXVI.

 KING CHARLES VIII. CROWNED AT RHEIMS.--HE AFTERWARDS VISITS SEVERAL
 TOWNS IN FRANCE.--HE MAKES HIS ENTRY INTO PARIS.--MASTER OLIVIER LE
 DAIM AND HIS SERVANT DANIEL EXECUTED THERE.--JOHN DE DOYAC HAS HIS
 EARS CUT OFF, AND HIS TONGUE BORED WITH A HOT IRON.


In the year 1484, king Charles, being fourteen years of age, was
conducted by the noble princes of his blood, namely the duke of
Orleans, the count of Angoulême, the count of Foix, the count of
Vendôme, the lord of Beaujeu, the lord of Dunois, the duke of Lorraine,
and numbers of other princes, barons, and gentlemen, to the city of
Rheims, to be consecrated and anointed with the holy oil. He was also
attended by the twelve peers of France, or their substitutes, who
all appeared to serve him in their different functions, according to
ancient usage, in such cases established. After the ceremony of the
consecration, he departed from Rheims, to visit some of the adjoining
towns, where he was received with all due honours: the streets were
hung with tapestries,--and the clergy, with all ranks of people came
out to meet him,--and bonfires and every demonstration of joy at his
arrival were displayed in every town he came to.

About this time, one Daniel, a native of Flanders, and servant to
master Olivier le Daim, was condemned for certain crimes by him
committed, to be hanged on the gibbet at Paris[107], which was done.
And not long after, his master Olivier, who had been in the confidence
of the late king, was sentenced to a similar punishment for having
acted criminally, and been too bold in his wickedness. Another of
the late king's favourites, John de Doyac, was, within a short time,
condemned by the court of parliament to be publicly whipt by the
hangman, and to have one of his ears cut off, and his tongue bored with
a hot iron in the pillory, at the market-place of Paris, for having
made too free with the effects of some of the princes, and for having
insulted them. He was afterward carried from Paris to Montferrant,
where he was again whipt, and had the other ear cut off.

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