Chapter III: Yolanda D’arragona--Ii

Royal mourning--Cardinal Louis de Bar--Yolande a
constitutional Sovereign--The Duke of Burgundy--Matrimonial
alliances--Tournaments--Princess Margherita di Savoia--Louis
III. fights for the crown of Naples--Queen Giovanna
II.--Princess Isabelle de Lorraine--A stick for a bad
woman!--René takes up arms--A vassal--Ordre de la Fidélité--The
Van Eycks--Treasures--Gardens at Bar-le-Duc--Floral
games--Fortune is a woman!--Battle of Baugé--Birth of Louis XI.
of France--Jeanne d’Arc--A panel of matrons--Slanders--Queen
Yolande’s daring--Charles VII. inert--René Duke of Barrois--A
débauché Prince--A young widow--Preux chevaliers--A
love-match--Princess Catherine de Champagne burnt to
death--René and Isabelle married--René Duke of Lorraine--Battle
of Bulgneville--A royal prisoner--A foisted child--A beretta
crown--Prince Jean--Duke of Calabria--Princess Marie de
Bourbon--Agnes Sorel, the most lovely girl in France--Queen
Yolande in private life--The Castle of Saumur--Queen Yolande’s
death--Her character--No trace of her grave--Théophaine la
Magine--A quaint epitaph--The stained-glass windows of Le Mans
Cathedral--“A good mother and a great Queen” 67-93