CHAPTER XIII — THE MASTERS OF PARIS  

  CHAPTER XIV — PLANNING MASSACRE  

  CHAPTER XV — A RESCUE  

  CHAPTER XVI — THE ESCAPE  

  CHAPTER XVII — A LONG PAUSE  

  CHAPTER XVIII — KATARINA  

  CHAPTER XIX — AGINCOURT  

  CHAPTER XX — PENSHURST  

  

  

       PREFACE     

       The long and bloody feud between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy—which for many years devastated France, caused a prodigious destruction of life and property, and was not even relaxed in the presence of a common enemy—is very fully recorded in the pages of Monstrellet and other contemporary historians. I have here only attempted to relate the events of the early portion of the struggle—from its commencement up to the astonishing victory of Agincourt, won by a handful of Englishmen over the chivalry of France. Here the two factions, with the exception of the Duke of Burgundy       himself, laid aside their differences for the moment, only to renew them while France still lay prostrate at the feet of the English conqueror.     

       At this distance of time, even with all the records at one's disposal, it is difficult to say which party was most to blame in this disastrous civil war, a war which did more to cripple the power of France than was ever accomplished by English arms. Unquestionably Burgundy was the first to enter upon the struggle, but the terrible vengeance taken by the Armagnacs,—as the Orleanists came to be called,—for the murders committed by the mob of 

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