Semé de France au bâton de gueules mis enbande.
THE REIGN OF CHARLES VI. AND ISABEAU DE BAVIÈRE
CHAPTER I
1375–1385
The House of Wittelsbach—Stephan von Wittelsbach and Taddea Visconti—Birth of Isabeau—Negotiations for her marriage—Her journey to Brussels—The fair of Amiens—Her interview with the King—Her wedding—Charles and Louis de France.
During several years after the death of Jeanne de Bourbon no Queen sat on the throne of France, for her son succeeded as a child of twelve years old. And it would have been difficult to find two kings and queens more totally unlike each other in every respect than Charles le Sage and Jeanne de Bourbon, “the sunshine of France,” were to their son and daughter-in-law, Charles VI. and Isabeau de Bavière.
An intelligent woman of my acquaintance once remarked, on being asked whether she considered women to be better than men, “Oh, certainly! Much better. I know several good women, but I only know one good man.”
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