Carrouges immediately looked for legal redress and initiated the process that eventually led to trial by combat before a silent crowd. But after Carrouges returned from a long absence, Marguerite told him that one day, when she was virtually unattended LeGris, arrived with a friend to offer his sexual services when she refused, she claimed, he brutally raped her. Carrouges lost his wife and son to illness, married the much younger, very beautiful, and wealthy Marguerite de Thibouville, and eventually earned his knighthood in service of the king. Jager ably illuminates Carrouges’s jealous, irascible temperament and LeGris’s superior political skills. The story involves two squires, once fast friends, who were gradually estranged as one, Jacques LeGris, rose in favor with the king and their local count while the other, Jean de Carrouges, fell. Jager (English/UCLA) spins a complicated and sanguinary tale with the skill of an accomplished thriller author. An accusation of rape in 1386 occasions this high-suspense account of a duel to the death sanctioned by the French Parlement and King Charles VI-and attended by thousands of eager spectators.
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