Anglo-Burgundian forces finally were expelled in 1429, when the city opened its gates to
Jeanne d’Arc and the dauphin, the future Charles VII. The city recovered its fortunes and
population during the later 15th and early 16th centuries, a period marked by another
burst of building. Sustained work on the cathedral’s nave, which had suffered a disastrous
collapse in 1389, was pursued from 1450, and the monumental west façade, designed by
the Parisian mason Martin Chambiges, was raised beginning in 1502. A host of parish
churches were built and decorated, including the choirs of La Madeleine (ca. 1490–
1550), Saint-Remi (ca. 1500), and Saint-Jean-au-Marché (1508–55), Saint-Nizier (ca.
1500–75), Saint-Pantaléon (1517–52), and Saint-Nicolas (begun 1526). In conjunction
with this Late Gothic architectural activity, renowned schools of glass painting and
sculpture flourished in Troyes.
Michael T.Davis
[See also: BLOIS; CHAMPAGNE; CHARLES VI; FAIRS AND MARKETS; JEWS;
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TRUCE OF GOD
. The movement known as the Peace of God spawned a new movement, in which
councils shifted emphasis from protecting classes of people at all times to banning all
military activity at certain times of the year (Lent) or week (Thursday sunset to Mondays
sunrise). The Truce of God placed less emphasis on popular enthusiasm and more on the
attempts of committed elements of the warrior and clerical orders to restore peace:
enforcement tended to fall into the hands of the counts, the dukes, and their allies.
Although juridically distinguishable, the Truce and the Peace were considered virtually
synonomous by contemporaries. Beginning in the late 1020s in the south, the movement
found favor among the rulers of western Europe from Spain to Germany during the later
11th century and throughout the 12th.
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