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(1) D'Hericault's admirable MEMOIR, prefixed to his edition
of Charles's works, vol. i. p. xi.
(2) Vallet de Viriville, CHARLES VII. ET SON EPOQUE, ii. 428,
note 2.
(3) See Lecoy de la Marche, LE ROI RENE, i. 167.
(4) Vallet, CHARLES VII, ii. 85, 86, note 2.
(5) Champollion-Figeac, 193-198.
(6) Champollion-Figeac, 209.
(7) The student will see that there are facts cited, and
expressions borrowed, in this paragraph, from a period
extending over almost the whole of Charles's life, instead of
being confined entirely to his boyhood. As I do not believe
there was any change, so I do not believe there is any
anachronism involved.
(8) THE DEBATE BETWEEN THE HERALDS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND,
translated and admirably edited by Mr. Henry Pyne. For the
attribution of this tract to Charles, the reader is referred
to Mr. Pyne's conclusive argument.
When he was no more than thirteen, his father had him
affianced to Isabella, virgin-widow of our Richard II. and
daughter of his uncle Charles VI.; and, two years after (June
29, 1406), the cousins were married at Compiegne, he fifteen,
she seventeen years of age. It was in every way a most
desirable match. The bride brought five hundred thousand
francs of dowry. The ceremony was of the utmost
magnificence, Louis of Orleans figuring in crimson velvet,
adorned with no less than seven hundred and ninety-five
pearls, gathered together expressly for this occasion.
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