[81] During John the Good’s reign, the province of Dauphiny had been added to the French crown, and the king’s eldest son took the title of Dauphin.
[82] So called from the familiar appellation “Jacques Bonhomme,” applied half in contempt, half in jest, by the seigneurs to the peasants who served them in the wars.
[83] The bastilles were fortified castles before the chief gates of Paris.
[84] Howell mentions the locution in a letter dated 1654.
[85] Charles taxed and borrowed heavily. Even the members of his household were importuned for loans, however small. His cook lent him frs. 67.50.
[86] The scene is quaintly illustrated in an illuminated copy of Froissart in the British Museum.
[87] The scene of the assassination is marked by an escutcheon and an inscription.
[88] They melted down the reliquaries in the Paris churches.
[89] In 1417 Charles, returning from a visit to the queen at the castle of Vincennes, met the Chevalier Bois-Burdon going thither. He ordered his arrest, and under torture a confession reflecting on the queen’s honour was extorted. Bois-Burdon was sewn in a sack and dropped into the Seine. The queen was banished to Tours, and her jewels and treasures confiscated. Furious with the king and the Armagnac faction, she made common cause with the Duke of Burgundy.
[90] A portrait of Jean sans Peur exists in the Louvre, No. 1002.