A Distant Mirror (124 page)

Livre des faits … de Boucicaut
(Godefroy ed., 104–14), Froissart, and
Chron. C6
, II, continue to be the main primary sources. It may be assumed that these and Delaville le Roux, chaps. 6–9, are the sources for material not otherwise cited.

1
MARCH OF THE PRISONERS
: from the account of Geoffrey Maupoivre in Delaville,
“Le Legs d’Enguerrand VII”
(Bibliog. I, B).

2
COUCY’S MIRACLE
: ibid.

3
“FORTUNATE TO BE IN A WORLD
”: KL, XV, 334.

4
DESCHAMPS ON FUNERALS
: Queux ed., VIII, 85–86.

5
DAME DE COUCY WRITES TO DOGE:
XV, 426.
ORLÉANS’ MESSENGERS:

6
Mangin, 45–46, 52–54; BN,
Fonds fr., nouv. acq
. 3638–9, nos. 268–9, 308, 456.

7
Mangin
GIFTS FOR BAJAZET
: Barante, II, 201; Jarry,
Orléans
, 185–86.

8
DESCHAMPS, “MONEY
!”: q. Gustave Masson,
Story of Medieval France
, 1888.

9
L’ALOUËTE:
182.

10
ANONYMOUS POEM ON TWELVE AGES
: q. Mâle, 303–4.

11
NICHOLAS OF AENOS:
Livre des faits
, q. Atiya,
Nicopolis
, 105.

12
COUCY’S WILL
: published in
Testaments enregistrés au parlement de Paris sous le règne de Charles VI
, ed. A. Tuetey, in
Documents inédits, Mélanges historiques, nouv. série
, Paris, Imp. nat., 1858, III, 39–44.

13
COUCY’S DEATH
: The assumption made by some historians that he died alone, the Sultan having moved on, taking the prisoners with him and leaving Coucy behind because he was too ill to travel, cannot be reconciled with the eight signatures to his will. The Sultan and French prisoners did indeed move on to Mikalidsch, two days’ journey from Brusa, where Burgundy’s envoy Guillaume de l’Aigle met them, supposedly in January. Either that date is an error or the prisoners must have returned to Brusa—perhaps because of Coucy’s imminent death—in time to sign the will.

14
“REFINED AND BARBARIC
”: Lefranc, Intro., x.

15
“SEIGNEUR OF MOST MERIT”:
Livre des faits
, Godefroy, 2nd ed., The Hague, 1711, 81.

16
RETURN OF COUCY’S REMAINS
: Duplessis, 103.
DAME DE COUCY
: Godefroy, 1620, 106.
FUNERAL
: KL, XV, 357, 437; XVI, 31.
TOMB
: destroyed (presumably) in the destruction of Nogent-sous-Coucy; the plaque from Ste. Trinité is now in the museum of Soissons.
DESCHAMPS’ DIRGE
: Queux ed., Ballad 1366.

17
ff.
RANSOM AND RETURN OF THE PRISONERS
: In addition to the sources at the head of the chapter, Vaughan, 71–77.
BURGUNDY’S GIFTS MISFIRED:
Bavyn ms.,
Mémoires du voiage fait en Hongrie par Jean dit Sans-Peur, Comte de Nevers
, q. Atiya,
Nicopolis
, 103.
BURGUNDY’S BOOKS BOUGHT FROM DINO
RAPONDI: Durrieu,
Mss. de luxe
, 163, and Putnam, 275.

18
TOURNAI EXPECTED A PARDON
: Delaville, 320, n. 2.

19
Epistre Lamentable:
Jorga, 500–503; also reprinted as anonymous in KL, XVI, 444–523.
BONET’S SATIRE
: q. Kilgour, 158–60, 172–73.

20
Quatre Valois: Chron. 4 Valois
, 187, 192.

21
BAJAZET IN WAGON WITH BARS
: On this famously disputed question, Gibbon (VI, 370–84) cites French, Italian, Turkish, and Greek sources to refute the claim of Persian historians that the story is a fable reflecting “vulgar credulity.” Gibbon’s editors (Milman, Guizot, Wenck, and Smith) accept the explanation of Von Hammer that the so-called iron cage was a mistranslation of the Turkish word
hafe
meaning a covered litter, in this case covered by a latticework made of iron. See also F. Schevill,
History of the Balkan Peninsula
, New York, 1922, 190.
COUCY’S “MANY FINE PONDS
”: as described in the suit brought by Robert de Bar, q. Lacaille,
“Vente,”
594.
FAMILY LITIGATION
: ibid.

22
PROPOSED MARRIAGE TO
S
TEPHEN OF
B
AVARIA
: originating in
Chron. C6
, II, 765, the erroneous statement that the marriage was concluded was repeated by Duchesne and Duplessis and others down the line until corrected by Thibault, 355.
SALE OF THE PROPERTY TO
O
RLÉANS
: Lacaille,
“Vente,”
574–87; Jarry,
Orléans
, 239–42, 311.

1
ORLÉANIST MANIFESTO, SUNK IN CRIME AND SIN
: q. Enid McLeod,
Charles d’Orléans
, New York, 1970, 63.

2
AGINCOURT
: Wylie, II, 108–230. An eyewitness account of the battle from the
Chronicle
of Jehan de Wavrin is quoted in Allmand, 107–11.

3
HEAVY ARMOR AND HEART FAILURE:
Oman, 377.

4
“FORESTS CAME BACK WITH THE
E
NGLISH
”: q. Evans,
Life
, 141.
DESOLATION OF PICARDY AND STARVING WOMAN OF ABBEVILLE:
Lestocquoy, 47–48.
COUCY DELIVERED TO THE ENEMY
: Antoine d’Asti, q. Dufour, 51.
REALISTIC HORRORS ON STAGE
: Cohen, 149, 267.

5
CONGEALING OF CHARITY:
Mâle, 440.

6
HUSSITE “MOVING FORT
”: Oman.

7
POPULATION, ROUEN
: Cheyney, 166. S
CHLESWIG
: Heers, 106.

8
THOMAS BASIN:
Histoire de Charles VII
, ed. Charles Samaran, Paris, 1933, I, 87, q. Fowler,
Plantagenet and Valois
, 150–51.

9
CASTILLON
: ibid., q. Allmand, 11–13.

10
TURKS’ SIEGE TRAIN
: Oman, 357–58.
VICTOR HUGO
: q. Mâle, 295.

11
COUCY LINEAGE
: La Chesnaye-Desbois; Anselme, V, 243, VII, 566; L’
Art de vérifier
, 243; Melleville, 20.
PERCEVAL HAD NO HEIRS
: Duplessis, 107.

12
FATE OF THE CASTLE AND MONASTERY
: Duchesne, 672; L’
Art de vérifier
, 219; Dufour, 21, n. 1; Viollet-le-Duc,
Coucy
, 30–31; Roussel, 42.

13
RUPPRECHT OF BAVARIA
: His intervention was related by him to Friedrich P. Reck-Malleczewen,
Diary of a Man in Despair
, trans., New York, 1970, 196.
LUDENDORFF’S
28
TONS OF DYNAMITE:
Histoire de Coucy
, pamphlet of Ass’n … Coucy-le-Château, by R. Leray, J. Vian, and H. Crepin.

B
ARBARA
W. T
UCHMAN
achieved prominence as a historian with
The Zimmermann Telegram
and international fame with
The Guns of August
, a huge best-seller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. There followed five more books:
The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China
(also awarded the Pulitzer Prize),
A Distant Mirror, Practicing History
, a collection of essays, and, most recently,
The March of Folly. The First Salute
was Mrs. Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.