. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . season for France. The duke ofBurgundy had retreated from before Paris in the previous year; for hispartisans in the city had been expelled, and the count of Armagnac had theyoung dauphin, Charles, in his hands, as well as the unhappy king. The * An English Chronicle, wi-itten before 1471. Camden Society, 1856. 68 OVERTHROW OF THE ARMAGNACS. [1418 queen had been deprived of her power, as regent, and had been sent as aprisoner to Tours. Suddenly the duke of Burgundy ap
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . season for France. The duke ofBurgundy had retreated from before Paris in the previous year; for hispartisans in the city had been expelled, and the count of Armagnac had theyoung dauphin, Charles, in his hands, as well as the unhappy king. The * An English Chronicle, wi-itten before 1471. Camden Society, 1856. 68 OVERTHROW OF THE ARMAGNACS. [1418 queen had been deprived of her power, as regent, and had been sent as aprisoner to Tours. Suddenly the duke of Burgundy appeared before Tours ;delivered the queen from captivity ; and received from her the appointmentof governor-general of the kingdom. The rule of the count of Armagnac hadbeen one of severity and terror; and the Parisians had fallen off from hisfaction, and now anxiously desired his overthrow. At the end of May therewas a fearful massacre of the Armagnacs by an infuriated Paris mob; andmany of them were held as prisoners. On the 12th of June, there was acry that the terrible duke was at the gates; but the people shouted for. Stonuiug a Fort. (Horloion MS.) Burgundy; and, breaking open the jirisons and private houses where theArmagnacs were coulincd, massacred fifteen hundred victims in one them was the count of Armagnac. On the 14th of July the queenand the duke of Burgundy entered Paris in triumph. The appetite forblood was not yet sated; and for some days the new government made aprofession of stopping the murders, but contrived to remove those personswho were most ohnoxious to tliem. Tho duke of Orleans, whilst thesehorrible butcheries were perpetrated by a fickle multitude upon tho party ofwhich lie was the real liead, was shut up in the castle of Pontofract. Hesolaced bis long cai)tivity in England by the composition of verses whichentitle him to rank amongst the best Preuch poets of his ago; and he alsowrote Chansons in English, with elegance and facility. Ue
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