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Fig. 369. King Charles VII., upon quitting Eouen, sets out to besiege the Town of Harfleur. 

 Miniature from the " Chroniques do Monstrelet." Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century 

 (No. 2,679). In the National Library, Paris. 



progress of that branch of literature. That sovereign, a friend of literature 

 and of men of letters, like hia two brothers, the Due de Berry and the 



