During his reign and the reigns of his successors, Francis I., Peter II. and Arthur III., the ducal authority developed in a remarkable manner.
Even so—and that upon the morning of the ducal election, the third of this month.
The ducal palace, and the monastic buildings of the priory, once connected with it, are now completely destroyed.
The careers of most of the ducal engineers, who were often specialists in hydraulics, testify to these interferences on his part.
Inevitably, then, the ducal tomb is seen as embodying meanings beyond the funerary.
This practice was seen as detrimental to the rejuvenation of wood by both the poor and ducal forest ordinances alike.
