. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI . and council was then very much engaged in business, Louis duke ofBavaria, sir Colart de Calville and others, were sent as ambas
. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI . and council was then very much engaged in business, Louis duke ofBavaria, sir Colart de Calville and others, were sent as ambassadors from the king to prolongthe day. On Saturday, the eve of the Epiphany, the king ordered a solemn service to be performedin the cathedral church of Notre Dame, in Paris, for his late brother the duke of Orleans,which had not as yet been done. It was celebrated with a multitude of wax lights andtorches, and attended by the duke of Orleans and the count de Yertus, the dukes of Berry,of Bourbon, Louis of Bavaria, the counts dAlen9on, de Richemont, dEu, de la Marche, and Dampvilliers,—a town in Luxeml)ourg, diocese of f Yvoix,—now called Carignan, a town in ;^ Mehun-sur-Yevre,—four leagues from Bourges. 820 THE CHRONICLES OF ENGUERRAND DE M0N3TRELET. many more, all dressed in deep momniing. The duke of Aquitaine was not present, he hadgone the precedmg day to visit the queen his mother^ and his sister the duchess of Brittanyat Prockssion of the King to Notre Dame, to perform the Funeral Obsequies of the Duke of Designed from contemporary authorities. Orleans. At these ohsequies the sermon was preached by the chancellor of the cathedral, doctor John Gerson, much renowned for his theological learning; and it was so strong and hold that many doctors and others present were astonished thereat. When he praised the manners of the deceased duke and his government of the realm, he declared that it had been by far better administered by him than it had
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