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Of pageantry we have abundance in this chronicle; and the illuminator has
taken advantage of this. The fullest description is that of Queen Isabel's
entrance into Paris in 1389 (pp. 383 ff.; see miniature, p. 8 here). 19 Little
did men dream at that moment, nor did Froissart himself live to know, how this
Bavarian princess would be looked back upon in later years as the antitype of Joan
of Arc; Isabel the Sinful Eve who had ruined the realm of France, and Joan as the
Virgin come to redeem it. "The Sunday the twentieth day of June in the
year of our Lord God a thousand three hundred fourscore and nine there was
people in Paris and without, such number that it was marvel to behold . . .
here was such people in the streets that it seemed that all the world had been
there," not only of small folk but of great, princes and princesses of the blood
royal. "At the first gate of Saint Denis entering into Paris there was a heaven

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19 For the minute and uncomplimentary examination to which Isabel had been submitted before
she was judged worthy of betrothal to the King, "according to the usage of France," see Berners,
vol. II, chap. 5 (ed. 1812, p. 11) and compare two fairly close parallels in my Life in the Middle
Ages vol. III, p. 155, and Chaucer and his England, p. 181. The three together are of supreme
interest in the history of manners.

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