France was the scene of continual strife in the first half of the fifteenth century. Beset by English armies and their Burgundian allies, interminable conflict brought the French to near ruin. Paris suffered along with the rest: famine, want, crime and rioting culminated with the insult of an English occupation of the city between 1420 and 1436.
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France was the scene of continual strife in the first half of the fifteenth century. Beset by English armies and their Burgundian allies, interminable conflict brought the French to near ruin. Paris suffered along with the rest: famine, want, crime and rioting culminated with the insult of an English occupation of the city between 1420 and 1436.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Translated from the anonymous 'Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris'. Illustrated. 419 pages, small 8vo, grey cloth, d.w. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Scarce. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
