and during that time the line of King Pepin and his son Charlemagne continued. Hugh Capet’s line lasted three hundred and thirty-nine years, and expired at the accession of Philip de Valois; and the line of the said Philip de Valois became extinguished in Charles VIII., who (as is said before) died in the year 1498, and was the last of that family, which had continued to possess the kingdom one hundred and sixty-nine years, during which time seven kings had succeeded of that line, that is to say, Philip de Valois, King John, King Charles V., King Charles VI., King Charles VII., King Louis XI., and King Charles VIII., who was the last of the right line of Philip de Valois. END OF THE MEMOIRS OF PHILIP DE COMMINES. HISTORY OF LOUIS XI. KING OF FRANCE, AND OF THE MEMORABLE OCCURRENCES OF HIS REIGN, FROM THE YEAR 1460 TO 1483; OTHERWISE CALLED THE SCANDALOUS CHRONICLE, WRITTEN BY A CLERK IN THE HOTEL DE VILLE OF PARIS. EDITOR’S PREFACE. The Scandalous Chronicle forms so valuable a supplement to the Memoirs of Commines, that I have determined to follow the example of previous editors, and insert it in this place. In reliance on the opinion of Petitot, I have ascribed its authorship to Jean de Troyes. The literary history of this work is somewhat singular. The first known edition was published under the following title,—_The Chronicle of the very Christian and very victorious Louis of Valois (whom God absolve!), eleventh of the name; with various other adventures which occurred in the kingdom of France, as well as in neighbouring countries, from the year 1460 to the year 1483 inclusive_. It is a small folio volume, printed in Gothic characters, and was probably published about the end of the fifteenth century, though the title-page bears no date, and mentions neither the author’s nor the printer’s name. The three following editions are equally silent as to the authorship of the work; but the fifth edition, published in 1529, ascribes it to a clerk in the Hotel de Ville of Paris. In 1583, Gilles Corrozet, in his _Trésor des Histoires de France_, quotes it as “The Chronicle of King Louis XI. otherwise called the Scandalous Chronicle, by Jean de Troyes;” and in the following year, La Croix du Maine, in his _Bibliothèque Française_, makes this statement: “Jean de Troyes was a French historian of the time of Louis XI., king of France; he wrote a chronicle of the said king, which is vulgarly called the Scandalous Chronicle, because it makes mention of everything done by the said king, and relates matters which are not greatly to his advantage, but rather to his dishonour and scandal.”