The Maid and the Queen (44 page)

27
   
“When her last hour approached”:
[“Voyant approcher sa dernière heure, elle reçut devotement les sacrements de l’Église; après quoi elle fit venir son fils et lui révéla ce secret. Le jeune prince justement étonné lui demanda avec douceur pourquoi, dans le temps où il avait été presque réduit à la détresse, elle ne l’avait pas secouru plus généreusement. Elle lui répondit qu’elle avait craint de le voir prisonnier, et qu’elle avait toujours voulu lui tenir cet argent en réserve, pour lui épargner la honte de mendier sa rançon de tour côtés.”] Ibid., 215. Translation by Marie-Paule de Valdivia.

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3: The Mad King of France

29
   
“The Duke of Burgundy”:
Froissart,
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries,
vol. 1, 295.

29
   
“The clattering on the helmets”:
Ibid., 260– 261.

32
   
“I feel I have not long to live”:
Ibid., 190.

33
   
“Tell my uncle, the Duke of Burgundy”:
Bearne,
Pictures of the Old French Court,
117.

34
   
“with many thanks”:
Kitchin,
A History of France,
484.

34
   
“The bells were ringing”:
[“Les cloches furent mises en branle, et pour faire connaitre à tous les Français le nouvel et joyeux événement survenu dans la ville, on envoya de tous côtés, au nom du roi, des courriers chargés de répandre dans le royaume l’heureuse nouvelle de la naissance du prince.”]
Chronique du Religieux de Saint-Denys,
vol. 1, 733. Translation by Marie-Paule de Valdivia.

35
   
“with much diligence”:
[“avec beaucoup de zèle”] Ibid., 735.

35
   
“The first words the King said”:
Froissart,
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries,
vol. 2, 94– 95.

36
   
“He had been the whole summer”:
Ibid., 99.

36
   
“unbecoming to royalty”:
Famiglietti,
Royal Intrigue,
2.

36
   
“Go no further, great king”:
Ibid., 2.

36
   
“Advance, advance”:
Froissart,
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries,
vol. 2, 100.

38
   
“
when… she [Isabeau] approached”:
Gibbons, “Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France,” 61, footnote 41.

39
   
openly conducting an affair:
For recent scholarship on the issue of Isabeau’s infidelity, see Famiglietti,
Royal Intrigue,
44.

40
   
“They [Isabeau and the duke of Orléans] could be reproached”:
Gibbons, “Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France,” 63, footnote 49.

40
   
“sounder part”:
Famiglietti,
Royal Intrigue,
28.

40
   
And the next year… gemstone that had caught his eye:
Ibid., 39.

41
   
so affected by this death:
Chronique du Religieux de Saint-Denys,
vol. 2, 731.

42
   
“I am the Duc d’Orléans!”:
Bearne,
Pictures of the Old French Court,
238.

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4: Civil War

44
   
“Ah, cousin”:
[“Ah, cousin, vous avez fait un mauvais acte!”] Bourdigné,
Chroniques d’Anjou et du Maine,
135.

45
   
“About the end of August”:
A Parisian Journal,
52.

45
   
“The King of France arrived with his army”:
Ibid., 66– 67.

46
   
“Know with certainty”:
Famiglietti,
Royal Intrigue,
118.

47
   
It is a simple matter… from the guest list:
For the guest list for the marriage ceremony see
Chronique du Religieux de Saint-Denys,
vol. 3, 231. [“La cérémonie se fit au château royal du Louvre, en présence de l’auguste reine, de Louis, roi de Sicile, des ducs de Guienne et d’Orléans, des comtes de Vertus, d’Eu et d’Armagnac.”]

48
   
Yolande received six hanaps… and a ring from the queen of France:
Beaucourt,
Histoire de Charles VII,
tome I, 16, footnote.

48
   
“Three months”:
[“Depuis trois mois”]
Chronique du Religieux de Saint-Denys,
vol. 2, 294.

50
   
“Alarm! Alarm!”:
Beaucourt,
Histoire de Charles VII,
tome I, 11.

51
   
“For the great love of nourishment”:
Besant,
Essays and Historiettes,
6.

52
   
“Bonne Mère”:
Senneville,
Yolande d’Aragon,
89.

53
   
“Then, by moving it to and fro”:
Barker,
Agincourt,
32.

53
   
a meeting between the French and the English in July 1415:
For details of this meeting, see Jacob,
The Fifteenth Century,
142.

54
   
“simply did not happen”:
Barker,
Agincourt,
69.

54
   
“looking like a couple of baby owls”:
Ibid., 59.

56
   
“their numbers were so great”:
Ibid., 247.

56
   
“There is no doubt”:
Ibid., 250.

57
   
the sickening waste of human life:
For the estimated number of French dead at Agincourt see Famiglietti,
Royal Intrigue,
168, and Barker,
Agincourt,
299. For the number of English dead, see Barker,
Agincourt,
304.

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5: A New Dauphin

59
   
John the Fearless’s reaction:
“In fact, John was happy to watch the flower of the Armagnacs lose their lives ‘for France’ at the battle of Agincourt.” Jones, ed.,
The New Cambridge Medieval History,
vol. 6, 585.

62
   
“he clasped [Charles] many times in his arms”:
[“On rapporte qu’il serra plusieurs fois le Dauphin dans ses bras, en lui recommandant de ne jamais se fier au duc de Bourgognes, mais d’employer cependant tous les moyens possibles pour vivre en bonne intelligence avec lui.”] La Marche,
Le Roi René,
34.

63
   
In his will:
For details of Louis II’s will see ibid., 34.

64
   
“the Queen was deprived of everything”:
A Parisian Journal,
103.

64
   
“the consent of our very dear lord”:
Senneville,
Yolande d’Aragon,
110.

65
   
“persons of low rank”:
Famiglietti,
Royal Intrigue,
184.

66
   
“Indeed, it is perfectly true”:
A Parisian Journal,
107.

67
   
“Then Paris was in an uproar”:
Ibid., 112.

68
   
“Vive le duc de Bourgogne!”:
Ibid., 113.

69
   
“to the great annoyance”:
Ibid., 112.

69
   
“The people, bitterly inflamed”:
Ibid., 114.

70
   
“until we have had the advice”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
23, and Beaucourt,
Histoire de Charles VII,
Tome I, 101.

70
   
“We have not nurtured”:
Senneville,
Yolande d’Aragon,
119.

70
   
“I know very well”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
26.

71
   
“Those who get power”:
Ibid.

71
   
“the kiss of peace”:
Famiglietti,
Royal Intrigue,
190.

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6: Childhood in Domrémy

77
   
“In my town they called me Jeannette”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
15.

77
   
“As far as I know”:
Ibid.

77
   
“Jacques Tarc”:
Smith,
Joan of Arc,
11.

77
   
“dressed in poor clothes”:
Ibid., 49.

77
   
“[I] knew neither A nor B”:
Ibid., 10.

78
   
“It was from my mother”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
16– 17.

78
   
“This girl spoke terribly well”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
28.

79
   
“When I was quite big”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc:
By Herself and Her Witnesses,
20.

79
   
“Life [in Domrémy] was like the countryside”:
Smith,
Joan of Arc,
13.

80
   
“Did the people of Domrémy”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
20.

80
   
“Bar and Lorraine could provide invaluable links”:
Kekewich,
The Good King,
21.

81
   
“
Yolande had pulled off a double
coup
”:
Ibid.

81
   
“Now it is true”:
[“Or est vray que ledit cardinal donna et fist son héritier dudit Regné son nepveu, et luy donna et délaissa la duchie de Bar et pluiseurs aultres belles seignouries; et par le moyen d’icelles seignouries, et aussi qu’il estoit filz de roy, issu de la très crestienne maison de France, la fille et héritière de la duchie de Lorrayne luy fut donnée en mariage; qui fut ung grant bien pour les duchies de Bar et de Lorraine; car, de long temps avoit eu en icelles seignouries guerres et divisions, qui par icelluy mariage furent en paix et unies soubz ung seul seigneur.”]
Chronique de Jean Le Févre, Seigneur de Saint-Remy: 1420– 1435,
tome second, 258.

82
   
“that he should give me his son”:
Pernoud and Clin,
Joan of Arc: Her Story,
19.

83
   
“In your extreme youth”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
20.

84
   
“
Item,
In view of the horrific and enormous crimes”:
[“
Item,
vu les horribles et énormes délits commis dans ledit royaume de France par Charles, soi-disant dauphin de Viennois, il est entendu que ni nous, ni notredit fils Henri, ni notre très-cher fils le duc de Bourgogne, ne traiterons aucunement de paix ou d’alliance avec ledit Charles.”]
Chronique du Religieux de Saint-Denys,
vol. 3, 429. See also Gibbons, “Isabeau of Bavaria,” 70, footnote, for translation.

84
   
“One should not take account”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
31.

85
   
“He didn’t willingly arm himself”:
Ibid., 35.

86
   
“All the people in the streets”:
A Parisian Journal,
181– 182.

86
   
“Thus his body was borne along”:
Ibid.

86
   
“‘God grant life to Henry’”:
[“‘Dieu donne vie à Henri, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et d’Angleterre, notre souverain Seigneur.’ Alors, les hérauts redressèrent leurs masses et crièrent d’une seule voix: ‘Vive le roi! Vive le roi!’”] Senneville,
Yolande d’Aragon,
161.

86
   
“and there were many heralds”:
Waurin,
A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, Now Called England,
3.

86
   
“Then there was raised a banner”:
Ibid.

87
   
“French historians have speculated”:
Smith,
Joan of Arc,
21.

88
   
“the king of Bourges”:
Vale,
Charles VII,
3.

88
   
“In the town of Maxey”:
Pernoud,
Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses,
20.

88
   
“to a fortified place”:
Ibid.

88
   
“Jeannette would go often”:
Ibid., 16– 17.

89
   
“She was brought up in the Christian religion”:
Ibid., 17.

89
   
“the captain-general of the armies of heaven”:
Smith,
Joan of Arc,
32.

89
   
she would have learned about the lives of these saints:
Wood,
Joan of Arc and Richard III,
133– 134. Wrote Professor Wood, “It seems far from coincidental that the feast days of these three saints are celebrated in autumn or that they follow each other in suggestive sequence: Michael on September 29, Margaret on October 8, and Catherine on November 25. For in that sequence, and in the saintly attributes that would have been stressed in sermons and homilies, there emerge a host of problems with which Joan would have strongly identified as well as tales of
success in surmounting them that suggested personal qualities which would prove central to her maturing sense of being.”

91
   
“In this same year”:
Waurin,
A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, Now Called England,
15.