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mmortalized in 1599 by William could do little to prevent the loss: There was KNIGHT’S PRAYER
Shakespeare in Henry V, the Battle dissonance in the French chain of command French knight and
of Agincourt proved to be the undoing of the caused by conflict between the Dukes of Orleans military leader
Boucicaut prays with
French hero Boucicaut. On October 25, 1415 (St. and Burgundy. Boucicaut suffered the ravages of
his wife in this 15th-
Crispin’s Day), the French suffered a crushing defeat firsthand: He was captured by the enemy
century miniature.
defeat at the hands of the English. Together with and taken to England where he was imprisoned Musée Jacquemart-
army commander Charles d’Albret, Boucicaut in Yorkshire. The French knight died there six André, Paris
was one of the leaders of the French side, but he years later. AGENCE BULLOZ/RMN-GRAND PALAIS