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Late in the afternoon of May 23, 1430, a Burgundian archer in the service of the English captured a hard-fighting soldier of the King of France and took his prisoner back to camp. Had he captured half the French army, his commanders would have been no happier. Stripped of armor, the soldier was seen to be a handsome, well-knit girl of 18 with short-cropped dark hair. For Jeannette d'Arc of Domrémy, who had given Charles VII his throne and whipped his English enemies with astonishing consistency, there now began one of the classic...
...mouth Burgundian songs...
Last week, to the mingled horror, delight and bemusement of a capacity (2,500) crowd in U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall, Stravinsky conducted the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony Orchestra in the world première of his newest work-a Cantata based on the Flemish and Burgundian styles of the isth and 16th centuries. The lyrics of its four parts were taken from English folk songs of the same period...
Legend has it that, in 1477, Memling fought under the banners of Charles the Bold against the Swiss at Nancy, and was wounded. Charles himself, the last of the great Burgundian dukes, died in the battle, and Burgundy's power was broken forever. A breath of the dukedom's glory survives...
Yale's newest buildings appear to be the oldest, for their antiquity was planned in advance and custom-made. Upperclassmen eat in baronial halls, may sit under imposing chandeliers or by an imported Burgundian fireplace, use silver sugar bowls. Yale's Divinity School looks as if it might have been moved up from Williamsburg; the university library looks like a cathedral ("Must I genuflect?" a bemused visitor once exclaimed); its main power plant is clothed in stone to look like a Gothic tower...