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275.] [Footnote 614: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p.109.In 1411 the Butchers of Paris, led by Jean-Simonnet Caboche, rose in favour of the Duke of Burgundy (W.S.).] [Footnote 615: Le P.Denifle, _La desolation des eglises_, vol.i, pp.
594, 595.

Garnier, _Documents relatifs a la surprise de Paris par les Bourguignons en Mai_, 1418, in _Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de Paris_, 1877, p.

51.] A tragic fidelity, an inherited loyalty to the Armagnacs recommended my Lord Regnault to the Dauphin, who entrusted him with important missions to various parts of Christendom, Languedoc, Scotland, Brittany, and Burgundy.[616] The Archbishop of Reims acquitted himself with rare skill and indefatigable zeal.

In December he prayed the Holy Father to dispense him from the fulfilment of the vow taken in the Butchers' prison,[617] on the grounds of his feeble health and his services rendered to the Dauphin, who required him to undertake frequent journeys and arduous embassies.
[Footnote 616: De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.i, pp.
268, 276, 339.

P.Champion, _Guillaume de Flavy_, p.


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