Le+Livre+des+Faits+et+bonnes+Moeurs+du+Sage+Roi+Charles+Part+VI

Paris, France

Sometime between 1392 and 1402

I wake up that morning. I get ready quickly and go to the table for breakfast. "Bonjour ma mere," Jean walks into the room. "Bonjour Jean," I say," I am going to the louvre again today, to write the kings biography." He storms out of the room. I ignore him, there is no point arguing. I leave the house and the carriage take me to the castle. When I get there I tell the guards that I don't need an escort, I know the way to this library. I spend the whole day reading and writing and I have completed much when the duke enters the room. "Your highness!" I stand and curtsy. "I trust that you are comfortable and that everything is to your satisfaction,"He says," Madame Pizan." "Yes your highness," I reply. "And what progress have you made?" He asks. "I have begun a draft and come up with a title your highness," I tell him," The good deeds and morals of King Charles V." I begin to believe that this may work. That maybe I can be a writer and support myself. I leave the palace excited and nervous. I hope that I can continue to support Jean and myself. An idea occurs to me. Am I not a woman in a man's world, creating my own destiny and deciding what to do with my life. Wouldn't it be fitting to write about women, and their struggles, and the injustices against them. I go home and tell Jean this. He says nothing, but smiles, as if he's known this all along and hasn't told me. In my chambers I go to sleep that night and think;

//If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.//

//*Above an original quote by Christine de Pizan//