LE PARADIS DE LA REINE SIBYLLE
Antoine de La Sale
To the Most Excellent and Puissant Princess - and my Most Revered Lady - the Duchess of Bourbon and the Auvergne, Countess of Clermont and Fourez and Lady of Beaujeu etc.
Most Excellent and Puissant Princess, my Most Revered Lady, I entrust myself, as humbly as I can, to your good graces and to those of my Most Revered Lord. And since it is only right that I should loyally fulfil all my promises, I have, Most Revered Lady, sent you descriptions and illustrations of the Mountain of Pilate’s Lake and of Mount Sibilla - which are very different from how they are portrayed in your tapestry - as well as everything which I have seen, or come to learn from the inhabitants, since my arrival there on the 18th of May, 1420. The following account i
