On 17th February 1454, in Lille, Oath of the Pheasant.
On 17th February 1454, in Lille, Oath of the Pheasant: Oath formulated by Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, and its court, during the Feast of the Pheasant, to go to liberate Constantinople besieged by the Turks the previous year; crusade which never took place. - Histoire Populaire de la France, Tome Deuxième Ch. Lahure's Publication, circa 1860
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