prominent military commander under kings John II and Charles V. His brother Adam,
lord of Château-Landon (d. 1362), was first chamberlain and a leading royal adviser. The
third brother, Guillaume (archbishop of Sens, 1345–76), was perhaps the dominant figure
in the royal council between 1359 and 1374. Raymond Cazelles called him the “Richelieu
of the 14th century.” Guillaume IV, who held the family titles for over thirty years until
his death at Agincourt in 1415, was a leading figure in the court faction known as the
Marmousets, which inherited much of the program of the earlier reforming party.
Guillaume IV, who was also butler of France, left no male heir. His daughter Marguerite
married into a cadet line of the Harcourt family of Normandy.
John Bell Henneman, Jr.
[See also: CHARLES V THE WISE; CONSEIL; MARMOUSETS]
Cazelles, Raymond. Société politique, noblesse et couronne sous Jean le Bon et Charles V. Geneva:
Droz, 1982.
MENAGIER DE PARIS
. A rich householder of Paris ca. 1394 composed for his young wife a prose work on how
to achieve a successful and happy marriage. Incomplete, this treatise provides moral
teaching with accompanying exempla and practical instructions on the supervision of the
household. Also included is detailed information on gardening for both flowers and
vegetables, the care of dogs and horses, falconry, the hiring and mangement of servants,
and cooking (which comprises marketing, devising menus, and many recipes). The
Menagier is in the genre of educational treatises for women and sheds light on late-
medieval bourgeois life and the tradition of the popular tale. It survives in three
manuscripts.
Joan B.Williamson
[See also: COURTESY BOOKS; JOURNAL D’UN BOURGEOIS DE PARIS]
Brereton, Georgine E., and Janet M.Ferrier, eds. Le menagier de Paris. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1981.
MENDICANT ART AND
ARCHITECTURE
. From the time of their founding in the early 13th century, the Dominican and Franciscan
orders played an important role in France. Paris, especially the university, was a major
center for both orders, and both also benefited from royal pa-
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