FOUQUET, Jean
(b. ca. 1420, Tours, d. ca. 1480, Tours)

Grandes Chroniques de France

c. 1460
Manuscript (Ms. français 6465), 460 x 350 mm
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

The illustration on folio 342v depicts Queen Jeanne d'Évreux, who was with child when Charles IV died in 1328. The States General appointed Philip, the king's cousin, as regent. The queen gave birth to a daughter, and Philip was proclaimed King.