[682] On these poems see Pigeonneau, Le Cycle de la Croisade (St. Cloud, 1877); Paulin Paris, in Histoire littéraire de la France, vol. 22, pp. 350-402, and ibid. vol. 25, p. 507 sqq.; Gaston Paris, “La Naissance du chevalier au Cygne,” Romania, 19, p. 314 sqq. (1890).
[683] “Vita Ludovici noni auctore Gaufrido de Belloloco” (Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France, t. xx. pp. 3-26).
[684] The Testament of St. Louis, written for his eldest son, is a complete rule of conduct for a Christian prince, and indicates St. Louis’ mind on the education of one. It has been printed and translated many times. Geoffrey of Beaulieu gives it in Latin (chap. xv.) and in French at the end of the Vita. It is also in Joinville.
[685] One sees here the same religious anxiety which is so well brought out by Salimbene’s account of St. Louis, ante, Chapter XXI.
[686] The founder of the College of the Sorbonne.
[687] Chroniques de J. Froissart, ed. S. Luce (Société de l’Histoire de France). The opening of the Prologue. It seemed desirable to render this sentence literally. The rest of my extracts are from Thomas Johnes’s translation, for which I plead a boyhood’s affection. For a brief account of Froissart’s chief source (Jean le Bel), with excellent criticism, see W. P. Ker, “Froissart” (Essays on Medieval Literature, Macmillan and Co., 1905).
[688] Froissart, i. 210.
[689] Froissart, i. 220.
[690] Froissart, i. 290.
[691] Yet the matter was fit for legend and romance; and a late impotent chanson de geste was formed out of the career of du Guesclin.