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 of Burgundy had retreated from before Paris in the previous year; for his partisans in the city had been expelled, and the count of Armagnac had the young dauphin, Charles, in his hands, as well as the unhappy king. The * An English Chronicle. wiitten before 1471. Camden Society. 1856. 68 OVERTHROW OF THE ARMAGNACS. [H18 queen had been deprived of her power, as regent, and had been sent as aprisoner to Tours. Suddenly the duke of Burgundy appe
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 of Burgundy had retreated from before Paris in the previous year; for his partisans in the city had been expelled, and the count of Armagnac had the young dauphin, Charles, in his hands, as well as the unhappy king. The * An English Chronicle. wiitten before 1471. Camden Society. 1856. 68 OVERTHROW OF THE ARMAGNACS. [H18 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. Storming a Fort. (Harleian MS.) Burgundy; and, breaking open the prisons and private houses where theArmagnacs were confined, 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 obnoxious to them. The duke of Orleans, whilst thesehorrible butcheries were perpetrated by a fickle multitude upon the party ofwhich he was the real head, was shut up in the castle of Pontefract. Hesolaced his long captivity in England by the composition of verses whichentitle him to rank amongst the best Prench poets of his age; and he alsowrote Chansons in English, with elegance and facility. Henry was
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