Jager begins his book focusing on de Tignonville, using chronicles and also a remarkable chance survival from the medieval records: the scroll on which de Tignonville's scribes recorded the progress of the investigation as it unfolded. The job of investigating the murder and identifying the culprit fell to Guillaume de Tignonville, the provost of Paris. His murder was therefore a matter of the highest significance for France. Charles VI was the famous King of Glass, and Orleans had been the leader of the government during the king's bouts of madness. In November, 1407, Louis d'Orleans, the brother of King Charles VI, was hacked to death by assassins in the streets of Paris. But anyway it is still quite good, and I recommend it. I am having trouble keeping my review positive, though, because it starts out as a great book, and I hoped it might measure up to his last, excellent book, The Last Duel. Eric Jager's Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris (2014) is a good book.
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