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49. The Visconti device: a viper swallowing a man
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illustration credit 23.18
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50. Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Pen drawing by Antonio Pisanello (1397–1455)
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illustration credit 23.19
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51. Froissart offering his
Chronicles
to Charles VI. From Froissart’s
Chronicles,
c. 1450
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illustration credit 23.20
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52. Gerson preaching at the Church of St. Bernard in Paris. From
Sermons sur la Passion,
illustrated by Baudoin de Lannoy, c. 1480
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illustration credit 23.21
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53. Burean de la Rivière, statues from La Grange buttress, Cathedral of Amiens
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illustration credit 23.22
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54. Cardinal Jean de La Grange, statues from La Grange buttress, Cathedral of Amiens
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illustration credit 23.23
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55. Effigy of Guillaume de Harsigny at Laon
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illustration credit 23.24
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56
.
DANSE MACABRE
Fresco in the Abbey of Chaise-Dien at Riom, 15th century
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illustration credit 23.25
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57. Lamentation of the Virgin with St. John. From the
Rohan Hours,
c. 1420
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illustration credit 23.26
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58. Massacre of the prisoners at Nicopolis. From Froissart’s
Chronicles,
Louis de Bruges copy, c. 1460
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illustration credit 23.27
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59. Posthumous portrait of Coucy commissioned by the Celestin monastery of Villeneuve-les-Soissons two hundred years after his death
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illustration credit 23.28
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60. Ruins of the
donjon
of Concy, after the German dynamiting of 1917
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illustration credit 23.29
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61. Aerial view of Coucy-le-Château today
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illustration credit 23.30
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Chapter 24

Danse Macabre

H
istory never more cruelly demonstrated the vulnerability of a nation to the person of its chief of state than in the affliction of France beginning in 1392.

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