Beauté-sur-Marne

"Of all the pleasant and agreeable places one can find in this world, built in a suitable way, gay and pretty, to live and reside, that which is at the end of the forest of Vincennes, which was built by King Charles -- god grant him peace, joy, and health -- his eldest son, the Daupin of Viennois, gives the name of Beauty."

-- Ballad of Eustache Deschamps (1346-1406)Charles V, who sought the calm at a distance of the official court of Vincennes restored "Beauty" in 1473.

The two men exchanged rings and luxurious presents, and on 16 January, Charles V accompanied his uncle to the manor of Pleasure.

(Enguerrand of Monstrelet 1390-1453)Agnès Sorel (1422-1450), daughter of a Picardy gentleman, Jean Soreau, entered the life of Charles VII in 1443.

One can easily imagine, to the breadth of whole this luxury, the castle of Beauty-sur-Marne that the king gave her in 1448, making her thus the Lady of Beauty.

He called together John Bureau, Jacques Coeur and Etienne Chevalier, all confidants of the beautiful Agnès, and all interfering in public affairs, and spoke these words, attributed to Francis I as a reminder: "Sweet Agnès, more honor you deserve / the cause being to recover France / than what can be rendered inside a cloister of nuns or to a devoted hermit.

"She died at the manor of Mesnil, in Normandy, while she had left to rejoin the King, in February 1450, three days after her delivery, most likely of complications of childbirth.