John of Paris

So you think?....

That in this simple and coarse habit Clothing style/garment. that you wear with such extraordinary ease, and with these racy manners that you imitate with such naturalness, there is no one who would not take you for a bourgeois of the city rather than the son of Philip of Valois and the presumptive heir to the crown of France.

You will also agree that my name, which is nothing less than pompous, seconds me marvelously in the plan I have formed.

The title of King of France that must follow it one day would suffice to give it brilliance, if indeed your actions had not already taken charge of that duty.

No praise; I do not like it at all. In allying as best I could the interest of my glory with the care of my pleasures, I have only accomplished the law that honor prescribes for every brave and valiant knight.

How dear that name is to my heart! And how sweet the duties it imposes seem for me to follow!

Learn to know them so that you may fulfill them well one day.