Excerpt from The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet, Vol. 12 of 13: Containing an Account of the Cruel Civil Wars Between the Houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the Possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, Their Expulsion Thence, and of Other Memorable Events That Happened in the Kingdom of France
Not to prolong matters, the citadel was gained after a very severe attack; and the Germans, Neapolitans, and Spaniards, of the party adverse tothe king of France, burnt the outworks and hastily retreated to join their associates in the Castel Nuovo. In the citadel were found the largest cannons that had ever been seen, with such quantities of other things of an extra ordinary appearance that it was more than eight days before the place could be cleared, by employing numbers of people and carts.
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