umed the title of
regent, entered Paris. Meanwhile Henry V. had completed the conquest of
Normandy. The murder of John the Fearless in 1419 under the eyes of the
dauphin Charles threw the Burgundians definitely into the arms of the
English, and his successor Philip the Good, in concert with Queen
Isabeau, concluded (1420) the treaty of Troyes with Henry V., who became
master of France. Charles VI. had long been of no account in the
government, and the state of neglect in which he existed at Senlis
induced Henry V. to undertake the re-organization of his household. He
came to Paris in September 1422, and died on the 21st of October.

The chief authorities for the reign of Charles VI. are:--_Chronica
Caroli VI._, written by a monk of Saint Denis, commissioned officially
to write the history of his time, edited by C. Bellaguet with a French
translation (6 vols., 1839-1852); Jean Juvenal des Ursins,
_Chronique_, printed by D. Godefroy in _Histoire de Charles VI_
(1653), chiefly an abridgment of the monk of St Denis's narrative; a
fragment of the _Grandes Chroniques de Saint Denis_ covering the years
1381 to 1383 (ed. J. Pichon 1864); correspondence of Charles VI.
printed by Champollion-Figeac in _Lettres de rois_, vol. ii.; _Choix
de pieces inedites rel. au regne de Charles VI_ (2 vols., 1863-1864),
edited by L. Douet d'Arcq for the Societe de l'Histoire de France; J.
Froissart, _Chroniques_; Enguerrand de Monstrelet, _Chroniques_,
covering the first half of the 15th century (Eng. trans., 4 vols.,
1809); _Chronique des quatre premiers Valois_, by an unknown author,
ed. S. Luce (1862). See also E. Lavisse, _Hist, de France_, iv. 267
seq.; E. Petit, "Sejours de Charles VI," _Bull. du com. des travaux
hist._ (1893); Vallet de Viriville, "Isabeau de Baviere," _Revue
francaise_ (1858-1859); M. Thibaut, _Isabeau de Baviere_ (1903).

CHARLES VII. (1403-1461), king of France, fifth son of Charles VI. and
Isabeau of Bavaria, was born in Paris on the 22nd of February 1403. The
count of Ponthieu, as he was called in his boyhood, was betrothed in
1413 to Mary of Anjou, daughter of Louis II., duke of Anjou and king of
Sicily, and spent the next two years at the Angevin court. He received
the duchy of Touraine in 1416, and in the next year the death of his
brother John made him dauphin of France. He became lieutenant-general of
the kingdom in 1417, and made active efforts to combat the complaisan