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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

The Parisians are reviewed by the king.
  Of the Arragonian ambassadors. A conference
  between the king and the constable.
  A truce with the duke of Burgundy.
  Other events. The duke of
  Alençon condemned to be beheaded at
  Paris. The king takes possession of Anjou.
  The duke of Burgundy besieges
  Nuys. He takes several towns, notwithstanding
  the truce between the king and
  himself                                                165


  CHAP. XVIII.

  King Edward summons the king of France
  to restore to him the duchies of Guienne
  and Normandy. Good news from the
  French army in Arragon. Some Arragonians
  beheaded. The king's physicians
  open a man alive, and recover him. Of
  the feast of St Charlemagne, king of
  France. Of the losses of the duke of
  Burgundy before Nuys, and of the conquests
  gained over him in Picardy and
  Burgundy. Some barons executed at Paris.
  The reduction of the town of Perpignan                 174


  CHAP. XIX.

  An alliance between the emperor of Germany
  and the king of France. Ambassadors
  from Florence and from the emperor.
  Prudent acts of the king. A devout procession
  at Paris. Tronquoy, Roye, Mondidier
  and other places, are taken for the
  king. The treachery of the constable. A
  great defeat of the Burgundians and Lombards
  by the duke of Bourbon, when the
  count de Roussy and several great lords
  of Burgundy are made prisoners. The
  men of Arras suffer another considerable
  defeat by the king's army. The deliverance
  of the prince of Orange. The flight
  and decampment of the duke of Burgundy
  from before Nuys. A conference
  and treaty of alliance between king Edward
  of England and the French king.
  Other events that happened at Paris during
  the year MCCCCLXXV.                                    183


  CHAP. XX.

  The duke of Burgundy delivers the constable,
  Louis de Luxembourg, into the
  hands of the king's officers, by whom he
  is carried prisoner to the bastile at Paris.
  The count de Roussy is conducted a prisoner
  from Burges to Montils-les-Tours.
  The conversation between the king and
  him. The trial and execution of the constable
  at Paris. Some of the officers in
  that city are displaced. The duke d'Alençon
  delivered from the Louvre. A council
  ordered by the king. The duke of
  Burgundy defeated by the Swiss at Granson.
  The duke of Nemours made prisoner
  at Carlat, in the king's name, by
  the lord de Beaujeu. Other events in
  this year of MCCCCLXXV.                                203


  CHAP. XXI.

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