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The "Quadrilogue invectif", composed in 1422, is a dialogue in which France entreats nobility, people and clergy, to unite their efforts to save her from invasion and civil war.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Chartier's _Quadriloge invectif_ is a lively and sometimes eloquent allegory, in which France personified implores her three children, the clergy, the chivalry, and the people, to forget their own quarrels and unite to save their mother whilst saving themselves; and this political pamphlet getting spread about amongst the provinces did good service to the national cause against the foreign conqueror.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 1830
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_] [Footnote 294: Alain Chartier, _Quadriloge invectif_, ed. André
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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