Paris to CJiamhery 39 



him and his companions gifts-" to the value of more than 20,000 

 florins.-'* 



2. PARIS TO CHAAIBERY 



On Thursday Lionel left Paris, accompanied by Jean de Melun, 

 Count of Tancarville-^ (d. 1382), as far as Sens, some 60 miles 

 distant ; from this point other knights attended him to the 

 boundary of France,-*^ probably Chalon-sur-Saone. 



Froissart seems to say, in his first redaction,-^ that the Green 

 Count accompanied Lionel from Paris to Milan. This, however, 

 would be an error. Amedeo preceded Lionel, probably by only 

 a single day, taking the route by which he had come, and which 

 Lionel no doubt followed — by Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, Auxerre, 

 an'd Chalon-sur-Saone, where France bordered on Franche- 

 Comte, to which point, about 180 miles from Paris, a herald of 

 the king accompanied him. 



Lionel followed, as we have seen, on April 20. He must have 

 arrived at Chambery, about 290 miles from Paris, either May 

 II or 12.-* On his route, after Macon and Pont-de-Veyle, lay 

 Bourg-en-Bresse (made famous by Matthew Arnold's Church of 

 Broil), where he may have arrived on May 8."^ Here he was 

 doubtless feasted for a day or more, after which he proceeded 

 by way of St. Rambert and Belley to Chambery (about 30 miles 

 from Bourg).^° Messengers had been sent out in various direc- 



"^ Grandcs Chroniqiies, p. 252. 



"■* Reckoning^ the florin at 3 shillings, this amount equals ^3000, which, 

 somewhat arbitrarily reckoned on the basis of £1 = $75 (see Hist. Back- 

 ground, p. 166) ,=: $225,000. 



"^A famous hunter, brother of the Archbishop of Sens (Delachenal 

 2. 84), grand master of the royal household, and of the woods and waters 

 of France. 



''^ Grandes Clironiqncs, p. 252. 



-' See p. 31. 



"* ^Messengers had been awaiting his arrival at Macon for some time 

 in April, and several days in May. 



"■' On that date payment was made to several workmen who had been 

 making preparations for Lionel's reception in that town. 



*' Isabella of France, traveling southwards in September, 1359, spends 

 two days at Pont-de-Veyle (Sept. 6-8), reaches Bourg on the 8th, and 

 Belley on the loth, whence she was conducted by way of Hautecombe 

 and Bourget to Chambery (Gabotto, Rendiconii della Reale Accademia 

 dei Lined 5. 8. 85). 



