Thursday, January 28, 2010

1415 A.D. At Agincourt: a tale of the white hoods of Paris

At Agincourt: a tale of the white hoods of Paris
By G.A. Henty 

The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie, on the old frontier between France and England, where the lad Guy Aylmer had gone to join his father's old friend Sir Eustace de Villeroy. The times were troublous and soon the French king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy with her children to go to Paris as hostages for Sir Eustace's loyalty. Guy Aylmer went with her as her page and body-guard. Paris was turbulent and the populace riotous. Soon the guild of the butchers, adopting white hoods as their uniform, seized the city, and besieged the house where our hero and his charges lived. After desperate fighting, the white hoods were beaten and our hero and his charges escaped from the city, and from France. He came back to share in the great battle of Agincourt, and when peace followed returned with honor to England.

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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 tlie presence of a common enemy
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 concpieror. 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 had more to cripple the power of France
than was ever accomplished by English arms. Unquestionably Burgundy wasthe first to enter upon the struggle, but the terrible vengeance taken by the 
Arniagnacs, as the Orleanists came to be called. For the murders committed by the mob of Paris in alliance with him, was of almost unexampled atrocity incivil war, and was mainly responsible for the terrible acts of cruelty afterwards 
perpetrated upon each other by both parties. I hope some day to devote another
>volume to the story of this desperate and unnatural struggle. 

G. A. HENTY.

 
 
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