“Le Livre de la Mutation de Fortune.”
“Le chemin de long estude” (translated from the Romance into French).
“La Cité des Dames.”
“Le Livre des trois vertus.”
“Le Livre des faits d’Armes et de Chevalrie divisé en quatres parties.”
“Le Traité de la Paix.”
“Le Corps de Policie.”
Charles V. and Jeanne possessed many beautiful books on parchment with exquisite miniatures and illustrations of the fourteenth century, books of hours and books of psalms, one of which had belonged to Saint Louis.
They commissioned Raôul de Presle to translate the “City of God,” by St. Augustine, and gave him 4,000 francs a year for doing it.[50]
Besides books and manuscripts, they had an immense collection of magnificent objects of art. Since the days of Louis, the taste for splendour and costly decoration had spread in all classes. Every now and then laws were made to check them, but as the nobles would not obey them and could not be forced to do so, they only acted as restraints on the bourgeoisie. And so the most important of all industrial arts had come to be that of the goldsmith.