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Article: Richard Vernier, The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War.(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2004
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Richard Vernier, The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), 237 pp. ISBN 184383-006-X. 30.00 [pounds sterling]/$50.00.
Bertrand du Guesclin (d. 1380) was the most famous French soldier of his generation. Already in his own lifetime he enjoyed heroic status, and his death was widely remarked by friend and foe alike. As 'the good Constable' he was lauded from his own lifetime as the 'tenth Worthy' and his career was commemorated in verse and prose. Ever since his death he has seldom been long neglected by biographers or eulogists. Alongside a huge bibliography of works of history devoted to his career, ...