. Pictures of the old French court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. rmingand spotless characters in history. From herchildish marriage to her death she does notseem to have had an enemy or a word of blameever attached to her. She was always spoken of as la belle duchesse or la bonne reine. Charleswas inconsolable. He never had the frank, opennature nor the graceful charm of manner that madesome of the princes of his house adored by theirfriends and subjects. Quiet and reserved, he was a 1 Grandes Chroniques de France, t. vi. p. 401. 2 De Mezeray. 1378] CHARLES V. AND J
. Pictures of the old French court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. rmingand spotless characters in history. From herchildish marriage to her death she does notseem to have had an enemy or a word of blameever attached to her. She was always spoken of as la belle duchesse or la bonne reine. Charleswas inconsolable. He never had the frank, opennature nor the graceful charm of manner that madesome of the princes of his house adored by theirfriends and subjects. Quiet and reserved, he was a 1 Grandes Chroniques de France, t. vi. p. 401. 2 De Mezeray. 1378] CHARLES V. AND JEANNE DE BOURBON 105 man of few but deep and lasting friendships andaffections, and he was capable of a deathless loss of Jeanne broke his heart. From that dayhis life was over. He never regained either health orspirits, but died rather more than two years after athis chateau of Beaute at the edge of his belovedforest. Isabelle de Valois, Duchess-dowager de Bourbon,took charge of her granddaughters and retired intothe convent of the Cordelieres at Paris, where sheended her Seme de Tranceau. baton de Queu/esto/s enbande. THE REIGN OF CHARLES VI. AND ISABEAUDE BA VIERE CHAPTER I1375-1335 The House of Wittelsbach—Stephan von Wittelsbach and TaddeaVisconti—Birth of Isabeau—Negotiations for her marriage—Herjourney to Brussels—The fair of Amiens—Her interview with theKing—Her wedding—Charles and Louis de France. URING several years afterthe death of Jeanne deBourbon no Queen sat onthe throne of France, forher son succeeded as achild of twelve years it would have beendifficult to find two kings and queens more totallyunlike each other in every respect than Charles leSage and Jeanne de Bourbon, the sunshine ofFrance, were to their son and daughter-in-law,Charles VI. and Isabeau de Baviere. An intelligent woman of my acquaintance once 107
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