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collected with scrupulous cure, :m<l which, were put together by the best 

 writers in the community. It was in this fashion that (iuillaimie <lc N;miris 

 wrote the Life of St. Louis and of Philip the Bold, us 15ig<rd did thai of 

 Philip Augustus. The Lives of the latter's successors, down to Charles VI., 

 were also w7-itten upon the same plan that is to say, in great detail by 



Fig. 365. Betrothal Interview between the Archduko Maximilian nnd Mary of Burgundy at 

 Ghent, April 18th, 1477. Miniature from the " Chroniques de Flandre." Manuscript of the 

 Fifteenth Century (No. 13,073). In the Burgundy Library, Brussels. 



monks who remained anonymous, and whose works are said to have disap- 

 peared when the Abbey of St. Denis was three times pillaged between 1410 

 and 1429 by the Burgundians, the Armagnacs, and the English. There is 

 some reason, however, for thinking that the monks themselves had concealed 



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