ABSTRACT
Forsaking the example of the great emperor and the king of France—who do not allow their honor to be trampled by their wives or their wives' kin and countrymen—the king, lacking money and nearly bankrupt, depleted his realm and everywhere let it be lacerated. Become uxorious, he allowed his land on all sides and any occasion to be chewed up and the goods of the land throughout the realm to be sucked up by aliens—Poitevins, Germans, Provençals, Romans.
