218 Readings in European History " Hand the brief to me "; and when he saw anything to better in the words of those who spoke for another, he corrected them with his own mouth. Sometimes in summer I have seen him, in order to dispose of his people's affairs, come into the garden in Paris dressed in a coat of camelot, with a sleeveless garment of linsey- woolsey, a cloak of black taffeta about his shoulders, his hair carefully dressed, but with no headdress save a hat of white peacock feathers. He would have carpets spread down so that we might sit about him, and all the people who had business to bring before him stood round about. And then he would attend to them in the manner I have described above in the forest of Vincennes. A. Refer- ences. BIBLIOGRAPHY General Narratives: ADAMS, Civilization, pp. 311-321; MUNRO, Chapters VII and XVIII, pp. 64-72 and 204-213. Odo and Charles the Simple: BEMONT and MONOD, pp. 235-241; EMERTON, Mediceval Europe, pp. 405-411; OMAN, pp. 496-505. Hugh Capet : ADAMS, Growth of the French Nation, pp. 54-60; BEMONT and MONOD, pp. 241-245 and 391-393; EMERTON, pp. 413- 419; TOUT, The Empire and the Papacy, pp. 66-77. The Great Fiefs : TOUT, pp. 82-92. Louis the Fat: ADAMS, French Nation, pp. 73-78; BEMONT and MONOD, pp. 396-401; MASSON, Medieval France, pp. 47-57; TOUT, pp. 274-282. Philip Augustus: ADAMS, French Nation, pp. 81-88; BEMONT and MONOD, pp. 404-413; MASSON, pp. 69-88; TOUT, pp. 290-294 and 393-405. St. Louis : ADAMS, French Nation, pp. 89-95 I BEMONT and MONOD, pp. 413-420; MASSON, pp. 90-119; TOUT, pp. 407-427. Philip the Fair: ADAMS, French Nation, pp. 96-103; LODGE, Close of the Middle Ages, pp. 49-62; MASSON, pp. 139-156. Political Institutions under the Capetians : ADAMS, Civilization, pp. 321-331; BEMONT and MONOD, pp. 421-444; EMERTON, pp. 422-433. tional read- A surve y of the wnol e Capetian period may be obtained from KITCHIN, ing in History of France, Vol. I, Book III. This may be advantageously sup- English. plemented by recourse to several short biographies or monographs, such
