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Chronicles, by Jean Froissart

Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics
Episode • Sep 23, 2021 • 22m

In the days when kings rode to battle leading their troops it was possible to make good the boast of the doughboy: "I'll bring you a king for a souvenir." (Volume 35, Harvard Classics)

Froissart dates Battle of Poitiers, Sept. 22, 1356.

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