LABROUE (E.): Le Livre de vie: Les Seigneurs et les Capitain - Lot 226

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LABROUE (E.): Le Livre de vie: Les Seigneurs et les Capitain - Lot 226
LABROUE (E.): Le Livre de vie: Les Seigneurs et les Capitaines du Périgord blanc au XIVe siècle. Bordeaux, Gounouilhou, 1891. Large in-8 paperback, print cover. (cover faded and pitted, spine reinforced with adhesive, foxing). 457 pages, uncut. 11 engravings including a folding map. Copy in a magnificent condition. The work concerns for many around Bergerac the damage caused by the roaders from 1379 to 1382. The companies of mercenaries recruited from the 11th to the 14th century, deprived of employers during periods of peace, gathered in bands called large companies, and lived at the expense of the population. These mercenaries were then called "routiers" because they belonged to a "route" ("troupe" in the French of the time). The grandes compagnies were troops of adventurers who, financed by the princes in times of war, lived on plunder and ransom in times of peace or truce.
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