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SIR JOHN FROISSART Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.9

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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.9
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CHAP. LVII. QUEEN ISABELLA OF FRANCE MAKES HER PUBLIC ENTRY INTO THE CITY OF PARIS. /~\N Sunday the 20th day of June*, in the year of our lord 1399, ther# were fuch crowds of people in Paris, it was marvellous to fee them ; and on this Sunday, the poHe ladies*of France who were to accompany the queen, affembled in the afternoon at Saint Dénis, with fuch of the nobility as were appointed to lead the Jitters of the queen and her attendants. The citizens of Paris, to the amount of twelve hundred, were mounted on horfeback, drefled in uniforms of green and crimfon, and lined each fide of the road. Queen Joan and her daughterf, the duchefc of . * June. My MSS. and that in the B. Mufeum hare the fOth of August. + Queen Joan and her daughter* I fufpect there muft be fome miftake, although this paragraph is in all the editions I know of, printed and MS. ; but I cannot difcover who thefe perfonages were, for aH the queena of that name wert dead, the laft of them the preceding year, and the duke of Tour*inc, the king's brother, fucceeded to the title of duke of Orleans on the death of Philip* in )39l : he had been lately married to Valentina, of l^Iilan, who is mentioned afterward* as form-ing part of the proceflion. 352 Orleans,


          
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