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q. Evans, Life, 141. DESOLATION OF PICARDY AND STARVING WOMAN OF ABBEVILLE: Lestocquoy, 47–48. COUCY DELIVERED TO THE ENEMY: Antoine d’Asti, q. Dufour, 51. REALISTIC HORRORS ON STAGE: Cohen, 149, 267.

5 CONGEALING OF CHARITY: Mâle, 440.

6 HUSSITE “MOVING FORT”: Oman.

7 POPULATION, ROUEN: Cheyney, 166. SCHLESWIG: Heers, 106.

8 THOMAS BASIN: Histoire de Charles VII, ed. Charles Samaran, Paris, 1933, I, 87, q. Fowler, Plantagenet and Valois, 150–51.

9 CASTILLON: ibid., q. Allmand, 11–13.

10 TURKS’ SIEGE TRAIN: Oman, 357–58. VICTOR HUGO: q. Mâle, 295.

11 COUCY LINEAGE: La Chesnaye-Desbois; Anselme, V, 243, VII, 566; L’Art de vérifier, 243; Melleville, 20. PERCEVAL HAD NO HEIRS: Duplessis, 107.

12 FATE OF THE CASTLE AND MONASTERY: Duchesne, 672; L’Art de vérifier, 219; Dufour, 21, n. 1; Viollet-le-Duc, Coucy, 30–31; Roussel, 42.

13 RUPPRECHT OF BAVARIA: His intervention was related by him to Friedrich P. Reck-Malleczewen, Diary of a Man in Despair, trans., New York, 1970, 196. LUDENDORFF’S 28 TONS OF DYNAMITE: Histoire de Coucy, pamphlet of Ass’n … Coucy-le-Château, by R. Leray, J. Vian, and H. Crepin.

About the Author

BARBARA W. TUCHMAN achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August, a huge best-seller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books: The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (also awarded the Pulitzer Prize), A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, a collection of essays, and, most recently, The March of Folly. The First Salute was Mrs. Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.