S.Solente, Christine de Pisan. Extrait de l'Histoire litt#233raire de la France, tome XL, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1969, p.74; 'Un traité inédit de Christine de Pisan: l'Epistre de la prison de vie humaine', Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, 1924, t.85, p.268.
See pp.6 and 174 of the A vision-Chris tine, ed. Sister Mary Louis Towner, The Catholic University of America Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, vol.VI, originally published Washington D.C., 1932 and reprinted 1969 by AMS Press, New York.
J.Gough Nichols' edition for the Roxburghe Club, London, 1860, p.54; see also pp.xxxiii-iv of George F.Warner's introduction to Stephen Scrope's translation The Epistle of Othea to Hector, London, Roxburghe Club, 1904; G.F.Warner and J.P.Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections, British Museum, 4 vols., 1921.
In 11.10-11, 28-32 Christine refers to the departure of winter and the return of spring.
There are no clear grounds for assuming, as Anatole France does in his Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, ed. of 1924, vol.2, p.33, that huitains XLVIII-LXI were the only ones to have been written after the coronation of 17 July. Huitain V, for example, presents Charles as 'venant comme roy coronné'.
Festschrift Louis Gauchat, Aarau, 1926, p.332.
In the section on the English, XXXIX-XLV, Christine also evokes Joan's future achievements.
In quotations a single oblique stroke marks the end of a line, two oblique strokes the end of a huitain.
On this distinction between Fortune and Providence see also Part III of the Avis ion-Chris fine, ed.cit. particularly pp.169 el seq.
See Dorothy G. Wayman's article 'The Chancellor and Jeanne d'Arc February-July A.D.1429', Franciscan Studies, XVII, 1957, pp.273305; Régine Pernoud, La Libéralion d'Orléans, Paris, Gallimard, 1969, p.168, note 2.
Christine de Pisan 1364-1430. Etude biographique et littéraire, Paris, Champion, 1927, Bibliothèque du XVe siècle, 35, p.195.
Christine's intense patriotism is all the more remarkable when one recalls that she was herself, of course, of Italian birth.
Published in Oeuvres poétiques de Christine de Pisan, ed. M. Roy, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1886-96, 3 vols., Société des Anciens Textes Français, vol. 1, pp. 240-4.
Livre du Chemin de Long Estude, ed. Robert Püschel, Berlin, Damköhler, and Paris, Le Soudier, 1881 and 1887, 11.303-50, 263546; Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune, ed. S. Soiente, Paris, Picard, 1959-66, 4 vols., Société des Anciens Textes Français, vol. 1, pp. 146-7; Avision-Christine, ed. Cil., Part 1, pp. 73-108.
Ed. Charity Cannon Willard, The Hague, Mouton, 1958, pp.61, 91, 135 respectively.
Livre du Chemin de Long Eslude, ed.cit., 11.4995-5042 and 6255-9; Livre du Corps de Policie, ed. Robert H. Lucas, Genéve, Droz, 1967, pp.1-102; LeLivre de la Paix, ed.cit., pp.124-6, 136-81.
It is c1ear once again that Christine's portrait of the ideal monarch is much influenced by her admiration for Charles V.
E.M.D.Robineau, Christine de Pisan, sa vie et ses oeuvres, Saint-Omer, Fleury-Lemaire, 1882, p.387, quoted by Marie-Joséphe Pinet, op.cit. p.427.
On feminism, see Helen Ruth Finkel, 'The Portrait of the Woman in the Works of Christine de Pisan', Les Bonnes Feuilles, vol.iii, no.ii, Fall 1974, pp.138-151, Pennsylvania State University; Lula McD. Richardson, The Forerunners of Feminism in French Literarure of the Renaissance, John Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages vol.XII, Baltimore, 1929, pp.12-34; Rose Rigaud, Les idées féministes de Christine de Pisan, Thèse présentée a la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Neuchôtel, Slatkine Reprints, 1973; Jean Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 8e ed., 'Les documentaires', Editions KRA, Paris, n.d.
In, for example, the Epistre au Dieu d'Amours (1399), the Dit de la Rose (1402), Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune (1403), ed.cit., vol.2, 11.5379-94, the Cité des Dames (1405) and Le Livre des Trois Vertus (1405). See also Oeuvres poétiques ed.cil. vol.1, 'Autres Balades' 11, 111, IV, XII, XXXVII, and the rondeau that precedes XXXVII; vol.3, p.39, number LXXVII of 'Les Enseignemens moraux', and Kenneth Varty ed. Ballades Rondeaux and Virelais, Leicester University Press, 1965, pp.118-9, 162-3. On the debate on the Roman de la Rose, see Charles Frederick Ward, The Episiles on the Romance of the Rose and other Documents in the âebate, Chicago, 1911, and PeterPotansky, Der Streil um den R osenroman (Münchener Romanistische Arbeiten XXXIII, Munich, Fink, 1972: Enid McLeod, The Order of the Rose. The Life and Ideas of Christine de Pizan, London, Chatto and Windus, 1976, pp.62-76.
Livre des Trois Vertus, Paris, Champion, 1912, Bibliothèque du XVe siécle, 16, p.371.
Marie-Joséphe Pinet, op.cit. p.1 95.
Festschrift Louis Gauchat, Aarau, 1925, p.333.
See titles of previous editions of the Ditié, and Marie-Joséphe Pinet op.cit. p.181 and p.416. Despite all their criticisms, de Roche and Wissler, it should be pointed out, consider the poem to be more than a rhymed chronicle. They rightly state in their introduction (p.333): 'Un souffle religieux les traverse (Le. les strophes de Christine) et les empêche de tomber au niveau d'une simple chronique rimée.' We have tried to argue, of course, that there are positive literary qualities in the Ditié which would also justify this assertion.
Paris, A. Michel, 1975, p.327.