| Amboise | Frontispiece |
| PAGE | |
| Jeanne de Bourbon | 6 |
| Meaux | 25 |
| French Noble, Fourteenth Century | 56 |
| Lady of French Court, Fourteenth Century | 67 |
| The Bastille | 80 |
| Meeting of the Queen and her Mother | 86 |
| Shield of Jeanne de Bourbon | 105 |
| Isabeau de Bavière | 117 |
| Nevers | 186 |
| The Prioress of Poissy | 190 |
| Bedroom of the Fifteenth Century | 197 |
| Old Paris | 202 |
| The Louvre, from the Hôtel de Nesle | 207 |
| Hôtel Barbette | 237 |
| Bourges | 257 |
| Man in Armour, Fifteenth Century | 273 |
| Map of English Possessions in France, 1380–1422 | 287 |
| Shield of Isabeau de Bavière | 298 |
| Marie d’Anjou | 299 |
| Shield of Marie d’Anjou | 300 |
| Charlotte de Savoie | 301 |
| Shield of Charlotte de Savoie | 302 |
| Anne de Bretagne | 310 |
| Trumpeter | 316 |
| Tour d’Amboise | 323 |
| Louis XII. | 330 |
| Bourges | 333 |
| Lady of Fifteenth Century | 339 |
| Blois | 342 |
| Loches | 349 |
| Shield of Anne de Bretagne | 364 |
About This Book
The book offers illustrated, chronological portraits of late medieval and early Renaissance royal courts, focusing on successive queens and their households, marriages, political roles, and social surroundings. Drawing from chronicles, letters, and earlier histories, it interweaves biographical sketches with accounts of ceremonies, fashions, family alliances, and key political events, supplemented by genealogies, maps, and period illustrations that illuminate courtly customs, architecture, and daily life.