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32 DEATH OF CHARLES OF NAVARRE: Chron. C6, I, 473, and Froissart.
33 COUCY’S MISSION TO MONTFORT: KL, XIII, 136, 337 ff.
34 KING’S GIFT OF A BIBLE: Lacaille, thèse, 117, from Delisle. FROISSART’S TRIBUTE: Berners ed., V, 163.
Chapter 21—The Fiction Cracks
As before, events and quoted statements not otherwise identified may be presumed to come from Chron. C6, I, or Froissart.
1 DESCHAMPS, “NOT ON THE GRAND PONT”: Queux ed., I, 156–57.
2 MÉZIÈRES QUOTED: Coopland ed., 524–25.
3 SOFT BEDS AND PERFUMED BATHS: preachers q. in Owst, 412. GERSON: q. Kilgour, 184.
4 SACCHETTI: q. Jacob Burckhardt, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, New York, 1960 (paperback ed.), 262. 441 DESCHAMPS ILL ON CAMPAIGN: Raynaud in Deschamps, Queux ed., XI, 296. An excellent analysis of Deschamps’ life, work, and opinions may be found in this long essay by Queux’s editorial successor. Ballads discussed here are in II, 214–26, 226–35. See also Kilgour, 64. p. 442 LOUIS D’ORLÉANS: Chron. C6; Jorga, 505; Collas, 143, 296.
5 CAMAL: Evans in notes to Díaz de Gómez, 153. VERSE: q. Mary Duchaux (Darmesteter), A Short History of France, 1918, 86.
6 BURGUNDY VISITS COUCY: Petit, Itinéraires, 203; Prost, 475.
7 RICHARD DESCRIBED: Vita R. Ricardi II, ed. Hearne, 1729, q. Locke, 110. HANDKERCHIEF: Hutchison, 239.
8 GRAND BOUTEILLER and PRIVILEGE OF TWO FAIRS: Duplessis, notes, 121; Duchesne, 268–69; Lacaille, “Vente,” 574–75; DBF, IX, 873. Text of the King’s grant in Lépinois, 209–11. ON THE OFFICE OF GRAND BOUTEILLER: Lot & Fawtier, 54.
9 COMPLAINT OF 1388: q. Denifle, 594.
10 MARKS OF DECLINE: Denifle, 594; Jusserand, 43–44. The Benedictine abbey was St. Nicolas-aux-Bois, diocese of Laon: Denifle, 706.
11 DON PERO NIÑO AT SERIFONTAINE: Díaz de Gómez, 134–38. The host served as Admiral of France from 1397 to 1405, which places the date of the visit about 1405–6.
12 DESCHAMPS’ BALLAD ON RAUCOUS EVENING: Queux ed., VII, 253. ON BALDNESS: Ballade 867. Obscurities in the language of this ballade were elucidated by Prof. Howard Garey of Yale.
13 BROMYARD ON FOPPERY: q. Owst, 408.
14 DESCHAMPS’ AILMENTS, SINS HE CONDEMNED, COMPLAINT OF COURT LIFE: Raynaud in Deschamps, Queux ed., XI, 296–97, 303–5.
15 COUCY SENDS MESSAGE TO PHILIPPA: Green, 227, from Rymer. NAMED CAPTAIN OF GUIENNE: KL, XIV, 25.
16 MARCIAL LE VÉRIT: from text of pardon in Douet-d’Arcq. NOTTINGHAM’S CHALLENGE: text in KL, notes, XIV, 398–99.
17 BOUCICAUT AT Roosebeke: KL, notes, X, 481.
18 COUCY PROPOSED FROISSART FOR CANONRY AT LILLE: Shears, 55–56. VERSE ON COUCY AS PATRON: KL, la, 345. The meaning of rouge eseaille was suggested in consultation by Profs. Howard Garey and Harry Miskimin of Yale.
19 COUCY OWNED OLDEST FROISSART MS.: KL, notes, lb, 224. This copy passed from Coucy’s great-granddaughter Jeanne de Bar to the royal library when Louis XI confiscated the books of her husband, Louis of Luxemburg. Listed as ms. II 88 in the Royal Library of Brussels (and as #6941 in the Catalogue des Mss. by Van den Gheyn), the copy has the Coucy coat-of-arms on fo. 16 r.
20 PETRARCH’S COMPLAINT: Correspondence, 28.
21 BOOKS GIVEN TO COUCY: Lacaille, thèse, 117, from Delisle, Cat. de la librairie du Louvre, III, nos. 19, 1160.
22 VALENTINA VISCONTI: Chamberlin, 89–91, 109–12; Collas, 48 ORLÉANS HOUSEHOLD: Lacroix, 74–75.
23 QUEEN’S ENTRY: Both Froissart and the Monk of St. Denis were eyewitnesses.
24 BURGUNDY’S CLOTHES: Vaughan, 43. ON THE “BED OF JUSTICE”: Bapst.
Chapter 22—The Siege of Barbary
1 TREASURY OFFICIALS, “HE HAS HAD TOO MUCH”: Chron. C6, I, 609.
2 CHARLES vi IN AVIGNON: Froissart; Chron. C6, I; Valois, II, 152–54.
3 Cent Ballades: Pannier, passim; Raynaud, xxxvi–xlix, li–v, lxiv–viii, 226–27.
4 BASTARD OF COUCY: La Chesnaye-Desbois.
5 KING’S TOUR OF LANGUEDOC and Bétizac AFFAIR: Chron. C6, I; Chron. Bourbon; Froissart; Coville, 304–5.
6 GENOESE AMBASSADORS: Chron. C6, I, 653; Mirot, “Politique” 10.
7 FRESCO IN THE CLOISTER OF CARMES: Vaissète, IV, 396; Sabine Coron-Lesur, unpublished dissertation on the Couvent des Grands Carmes de Toulouse,