Mr Cornwell,
I’ve just finished your book “Azincourt” and in first, I would like to thank you for this magnific lesson of history so well written…
I must confess you that I am french, and that I bought this book for a particular reason : Le Duc d’Orléans. I am musician and you may be know a french composer called Claude Debussy. In 1904, he wrote three songs for choir on poems written by Charles d’Orléans when he was prisoner in England after the battle of Azincourt. These are called “Dieu ! Qu’il la fait bon regarder” in which the poet talks about the France that he was able to see early in the morning when the sun was climbing up. The second “Quand j’ai ouy le tambourin”, and the last “Hyver, vois n’estes qu’un vilain”.
It’s amazing how horror (in this case horror of war) can give life to beauty (in this case, the music of Claude Debussy)…
With many king regards,
Bruno Habert