Isabella of Valois, daughter of King Charles VI of France, given in marriage to King Richard II of England in a tent between Ardres and Calais, 1396. The 7-year old princess is hugged by the 29-year-old king in front of courtiers in ermine and tents with fleur-de-lys and lions. Woodcut after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's 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, George Routledge, London, 1868.

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