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  • This new and Norman shrine it must have been which was carried by the two prisoners, delivered by the Privilege of the Fierte in 1194, but it has long ago been replaced by later work.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • PRIVILÈGE St. Romain, 37; 104 etc. ---- St. Romain (Prisoners of), 163 etc. ---- St. Romain (Records of the), 295 etc. PROCESSION of the Fierte, 354 etc. PUNISHMENTS of the XVIth century, 273.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • Of the many interesting processions which must have taken place in the fifteenth century on the occasion of the great ceremony of the Fierte

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • I have already mentioned the famous Talbot (see p. 203) in connection with the Fierte.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • The ceremony of the "Levée de la Fierte" did not invariably meet with the approval of the people, as may be seen from the last case I have room to quote from this period.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • And by 1446 the charter of Charles VII., which is still preserved in the archives of the Cathedral, announces in May of that year that the prisoner who raises the Fierte "est absolz du cas pour le quel il l'a levée et de tous crismes précédents."

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • But it is the women who are at the bottom of nearly all recorded crime in the long story of the Fierte, and when they are themselves chosen it is often at the end of a drama that surpasses in interest all the tales of mere masculine malefactors in the most interesting criminal record I have ever seen.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • Two accomplices were actually hanged for this crime, but de Monnier, after paying 1200 livres to the dead man's family, and being unsuccessful in securing the royal pardon, was given the Fierte with the rest of his friends by the Chapterhouse of Rouen.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • At the south end used to be the beautiful little chapel in which the Messe Rouge was sung for the "Rentrée de la St. Martin," and in which St. Romain's chosen prisoner knelt before he went out to the procession of the Fierte.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • In this case it was evidently the influence of the offender's family which procured him the Fierte, and his victim raised the "clameur de haro" during the ceremony itself.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

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