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Froissart in Orthez

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Jean Froissart: The Count Gaston de Foix, which I speak, at that time that I was his possession, had about fifty-nine years old. And you say that I saw in my time of moult knights, kings, princes and others, but I ever saw none that was not beautiful six members, so beautiful shape, size or so beautiful and nice rail system , blood and laughing eyes vair and love where it pleased him to sit his eyes. Of all things he was so very perfect that it might not praise too.

From bears and all its nature - hunting book - Bnf

Jean Froissart Valenciennes to 1337, after 1404, a freelance columnist, was invited with all expenses paid in Gaston III of Foix-Béarn , Orthez 1331, said Fébus or Phoebus, Phoebus . latter die during a bear hunt, hospital-d'Orion (near Sauveterre de Bearn), At the age of 60 years in 1391.

"Despite its courtesy of crimes, even heinous for the time, defiled the memory of that prince: he killed his natural brother, Pierre Arnaud, lured into an ambush.

His younger son, Gaston hit the neglect which was his mother, received one day of Charles the Bad, his uncle's advice to throw in food from his father a certain powder that gave him, and should go to his mother all the love of her husband. The credulous child trying the experiment, the powder was poison. His father demand vengeance states, trying vainly to protect against the Viscount of Bearn this son whom they regard as innocent. "
(On the History departments)

Froissart begins to draw the pretty picture Gaston cited above and he wondered what became Gaston's son, also named Gaston. He does not question the principal party, is trying his luck with a vassal then collects testimony from an equerry. Here's how


Froissart tells of the death of the child:

I tendois too much to ask and know, for as long as I véois the hostel of the Count of Foix so large and lavish, Gaston, son the count had become, nor what impact it was dead, for Sir Lyon Espaing do m'avoit meant. And inquired as both a horseman and former moult notable man tells me. If his story and began by saying:

"When was placed in the tower Enfe Ortais.

"The day of his death, those who served for eating meat brought him and said," Gaston ave it meat for you. "Gaston did not account and said:" Put it there . 'He who the ferved what I tell you, looks and sees in the prison all the meat that he had made days ago. Adonc he shut the bedroom and came to the Count of Foix, and said: "My Lord, for God thank you! Take care over your son because he is starving in the prison where he lies, and think he ate oncques then there came because I saw all the tunes a whole food lez, which is has served. "From the word count s'enfélonna, and without saying a word, he left his room and went to the prison where her son was, and held in his evil hour along a small cutlass it appareilloit his nails and cleaned. He opened the door of the prison and came to his son, and the tenoit alemelle of his knife by the tip, and so close to the point that there had stepped out of his fingers the length of the thickness of a big tournament. By mautalent, so that when booting peak in the throat of his son, he Massena, do not know in what vein, and said: "Ha, traitour! why do you not eat? "And sometimes it left the count without anything to say or do, and went into his room. ENFE blood was transformed and scared of the coming of his father, avecques that he was weak from fasting and that he saw or felt tip Cutler who touched the throat, as was small, but it was of a vein He turned the other and there died.

(boh, told as it was certainly a domestic accident and involuntary)

Portrait of Froissart his writing to his table and welcoming

a nobleman who comes to visit him.

The Chronicles of Froissart

on historians and chroniclers of the Middle Ages here

The Book of Gaston Phebus hunting there