36 Lionel's Journey to Italy 



they had danced and played — the king's brothers being always 



to be for ever part of the domain of the Crown — the hotel where "he 

 had enjoyed many pleasures, endured and recovered from many illnesses, 

 and which, therefore, he regarded with singular pleasure and affection." 

 No plan of the Hotel de St. Paul has come down to us, but we 

 know that it was rather a group of palaces than a single building, 

 the Hotel de Sens being the royal dwelling-place, . . . the Hotel 

 d'Etampes being called Hotel de la Reine. . . . The palace as a whole 

 was surrounded by high walls, inclosing six meadows, eight gardens, 

 twelve galleries, and a number of courts. . . . The garden walks 

 were shaded by trellises covered with vines. ... In their shade 

 Charles V amused himself by keeping a menagerie, and many accounts 

 exist of sums disbursed to those who brought him rare animals. Here 

 the queen and her ladies appeared in the new dress of the time, in 

 which their own arms were always embroidered on one side of their 

 gown, and their husbands' on the other.' Cf. Michelet 5. 43-4. From this 

 residence Charles could see, two years later, the flames of the villages 

 which the English were burning (Michelet 5. 31; Lavisse 4.' 235). 



Add Encyc. Brit., 9th ed., 18. 189: 'He [Charles V] robbed the Louvre 

 to some extent of its military equipment, in order to make a convenient 

 and sumptuous residence ; his open-work staircases and his galleries are 

 mentioned in terms of the highest praise by writers of the time. This 

 did not, however, remain always his favorite palace ; having built or 

 rebuilt in the St. Antoine quarter the mansion of St. Paul or St. Pol, 

 he was particularly fond of living in it during the latter part of his life, 

 and it was there that he died in 1380.' 



These reunions must have had much the air of a family party. There 

 were present Lionel's brother-in-law and his prospective uncle. Then, 

 since the king's sister, Isabella, had been married, eight years before — 

 she was now only 19 years old — to Gian Galeazzo (a marriage probably 

 negotiated by Amedeo; cf. Cordey, p. 155), the brother of Lionel's 

 betrothed, that would make her sister-in-law to Lionel, and thus tend to 

 create a fraternal feeling with Berrj^, Burgundy, and the king, and more 

 remotely, through the king, with the queen and her brother, Bourbon. 

 Moreover, since Amedeo had married Bonne de Bourbon in 1355 at 

 the Hotel St. Pol, he was at table with his sister-in-law, the queen (once 

 almost betrothed to him; Delachenal i. 26-27), and his brother-in-law, 

 Louis de Bourbon, by whom the Green Count's wife was much beloved 

 (Kervyn i.^ 163, note). 



These ties would be strengthened by the residence of Berry, Burgundy, 

 and Bourbon in England, where, though they were detained as hostages, 

 they can have known little of the horrors of imprisonment. The father 

 of the three royal brothers, King John (1319-1364), after his defeat at 

 Poitiers, was in England as a captive for three years (1357-60), yet, 

 after more than three years of liberty, while his ransom was still unpaid, 



