[Illustration: HOTEL DE VILLE BOURGES----FRONTISPIECE]
XXIII. THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR.--CHARLES VI. AND THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY.
XXIV. THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR.--CHARLES VII. AND JOAN OF ARC. (1422- 1461.)
XXVI. THE WARS OF ITALY.--CHARLES VIII. (1483-1498.)
XXVII. THE WARS IN ITALY.--LOUIS XII. (1498-1515.)
[Illustration: HOTEL DE VILLE BOURGES----FRONTISPIECE]
[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF JOAN OF ARC----85]
[Illustration: JOAN ENTERING ORLEANS----104]
[Illustration: STATES GENERAL AT TOURS----329]
[Illustration: The Procession went over the Gates----16]
[Illustration: ‘“Thou art betrayed.”’----26]
[Illustration: Murder of the Duke of Orleans----38]
[Illustration: Death of Valentine de Milan----45]
[Illustration: Charles VI. and Odette----71]
[Illustration: ‘“Into the River!”’----77]
[Illustration: The Body of Charles VI. lying in State----84]
[Illustration: The Shepherdess of Domremy----90]
[Illustration: Joan of Arc in her Father’s Garden----91]
[Illustration: Herself drew out the Arrow----109]
[Illustration: Joan examined in Prison----128]
[Illustration: Philip the Good of Burgundy----144]
[Illustration: The Constable Made his Entry on Horseback----150]
[Illustration: Jacques Coeur’s Hostel at Bourges----169]
[Illustration: Louis XI. and Burgesses waiting for News----193]
[Illustration: Louis XI. and Charles the Rash at Peronne----209]
[Illustration: Philip de Commynes----217]
[Illustration: The Corpse of Charles the Rash Discovered----236]
[Illustration: Louis XI. at his Devotions----255]
[Illustration: Views of the Castle of Plessis-les-Tours----258]
[Illustration: Meeting between Charles VIII, and Anne of Brittany----282]
[Illustration: Charles VIII. crossing the Alps----285]
[Illustration: Battle of Agnadello----334]
[Illustration: Cardinal d’Amboise----347]
[Illustration: Chaumont d’Amboise----350]
CHAPTER XXIII.----THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR--CHARLES VI. AND THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY.
Sully, in his Memoirs, characterizes the reign of Charles VI. as “that reign so pregnant of sinister events, the grave of good laws and good morals in France.” There is no exaggeration in these words; the sixteenth century with its St. Bartholomew and The League, the eighteenth with its reign of terror, and the nineteenth with its Commune of Paris, contain scarcely any events so sinister as those of which France was, in the reign of Charles VI., from 1380 to 1422, the theatre and the victim.