Pictures Of The Old French Court Jeanne De Bourbon Isabeau De Bavi Re Anne De Bretagne

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...as he always 1 Froissart, t. xiii. c. 32, p. 240. "Relig. de St. Denis," liv. xii. c. 9, p. 255. Juvenal des Ursins, p. 93. Monstrclet, t. i. pp. 312 and 423. Also Barante, " Dues de Bourgogne," i. ii. p. 197. appears to have been, on affectionate terms with his brother. The catastrophe excited the greatest horror in the minds of everybody except the tenants and people belonging to the Comte de Joiiy, who was so outrageously tyrannical and cruel that they were all delighted when they heard that they were so unexpectedly delivered from him. The late calamity seems to have had a sobering effect upon the court, and for a little while after this shock things went on more quietly. But in June the King had a relapse, and this time he was worse, or at any rate the aggravated symptoms lasted longer. He did not recognise the Queen, and when she came near and spoke to him affectionately would ask who she was and even seemed to take a dislike to her, and told those surrounding him to take her away for he did not know what she wanted. He declared that he was not King, that his name was not Charles but George, that his arms were a lion pierced with a spear and not the fleur-de-lis, the very sight of which threw him into a rage, and which he would try to efface or tear out of tapestries, plate, or anything upon which they were. He declared he was not married and had no children, and the only person he knew was the Duchesse d'Orleans whom he insisted on seeing every day, and called " ma sceur bien-aimee." People began, as usual, to talk about sorcery. Some said it was to witchcraft that Valentine owed her influence, others declared that the King's illness came from his having been bewitched. Dr. Hassely was dead, and the...

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