Trois étoiles Desnos

in La Cité des dames (1404–5) where, advised by Reason, Rectitude and Justice, she selects women to inhabit her ideal city. Although her choice here falls on the Virgin and well-born figures from classical antiquity and French history, Le Livre des trois vertus (1405) is a compendium of duties offered to women of all classes. She also diagnosed the moral decline of France in L’Avision Christine (1405) and after 1410 commented more directly on the state of the nation, ending her career with a Ditié