La guerre de Cent ans

Mairey, Aude

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“…Burgundian influence extended from 1411 to 1413, at the end of which year they were expelled from Paris. 114 By 1418, Burgundians again ruled the capital. The entry in the royal accounts for 1420 suggests that Creton had been captured by the Armagnacs while trying to flee Paris in 1413.…”

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Jehan Creton was a Frenchman and a writer, of whose work only the Prinse et mort 1 and the related ballades and epistles survive; see Figure I for his portrait. The action of his poem takes place in 1399, in England, Ireland, and Wales, during a truce in the middle years of the Hundred Years War (1337War ( -1453. By command of Charles VI of Francewhose daughter, Isabella, had been married to Richard II in 1396 -Creton joined Richard's retinue on his second Irish expedition, in 1399, and was thus by chance able to tell how a king, at the height of his powers, was left to face an overweening subjecthis mortal foewithout his army. Tricked into leaving a strong castle, whence he could have escaped by sea, Richard fell into Henry Lancaster's power, was deposed and murdered. Safely back in France, Creton could relate how this happened, without fear of reprisals, and his long poemquatrains, prose, and coupletsis thus an important corrective to the chronicles composed under the Lancastrian regime. He did not give his work a title; this has been taken from an entry in one of the duke of Berry's account books. 2 Unlike Jehan Froissart writing rather earlier, Creton was not a chronicler and the Prinse et mort is not a chronicle. On the face of it, the sophisticated verse form is unsuitable. It was never popular it was too difficultbut it was practised in France by the major literary figures of the day. Conversely it was the choice nature of the structure that made it appropriate; only the most dazzling and difficult form was a suitable vehicle for relating the downfall of an anointed king. Unlike other accounts of Richard II's capture, Creton's was designed primarily for reading aloud to an audience rather than for silent reading. This was another reason for writing in verse, which could be followed more easily by those listening.1 Prinse is pronounced to rhyme with English 'freeze': the n is not sounded. The rhymes at ll. 572-575 and 1576-1579 show this.2 M. Meiss, 'The bookkeeping of Robinet d'Estampes and the chronology of Jean de Berry's manuscripts',

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