ment and which was afterwards, on his deposition, made so great an
article of charge against him.

But during this interruption of hostilities from England, France was
exposed to all the furies of civil war, and the several parties became
every day more enraged against each other. The duke of Burgundy,
confident that the French ministers and generals were entirely
discredited by the misfortune at Azincour, advanced with a great army
to Paris, and attempted to reinstate himself in possession of the
government, as well as of the person of the king. But his partisans in
that city were overawed by the court, and kept in subjection: the
duke despaired of success; and he retired with his forces, which he
immediately disbanded in the Low Countries.[*]

{1417.} He was soon after invited to make a new attempt, by some violent
quarrels which broke out in the royal family. The queen, Isabella,
daughter of the duke of Bavaria, who had been hitherto an inveterate
enemy to the Burgundian faction, had received a great injury from the
other party, which the implacable spirit of that princess was never
able to forgive. The public necessities obliged the count of Armagnac,
created constable of France in the place of D'Albret, to seize the
great treasures which Isabella had amassed: and when she expressed her
displeasure at this injury, he inspired into the weak mind of the king
some jealousies concerning her conduct, and pushed him to seize, and put
to the torture, and afterwards throw into the Seine, Boisbourdon, her
favorite, whom he accused of a commerce of gallantry with that princess.
The queen herself was sent to Tours, and confined under a guard;[**]
and after suffering these multiplied insults, she no longer scrupled to
enter into a correspondence with the duke of Burgundy. As her son,
the dauphin Charles, a youth of sixteen, was entirely governed by the
faction of Armagnac, she extended her animosity to him, and sought
his destruction with the most unrelenting hatred. She had soon an
opportunity of rendering her unnatural purpose effectual. The duke of
Burgundy, in concert with her, entered France at the head of a great
army: he made himself master of Amiens, Abbeville, Dourlens, Montreuil,
and other towns in Picardy; Senlis, Rheims, Chalons, Troye, and Auxerre,
declared themselves of his party.[***] He got possession of Beaumont,
Pontoise, Vernon, Meulant, Montlheri, towns in the neighborhood of
Paris; and carrying further his