Commentary: Annotations, f-2-129-2

Froissart draws a parallel between the count of Flanders and Jan Yoens here: in the earlier chapter, it was the captain of the White Hoods that addressed the citizens of Ghent in a long, rhetorical speech made in public, and persuaded them with his arguments; here the situation is reversed and it is the count who is addressing the Ghentish people in public and trying to persuade them to accept his rule once more, and to abandon that of the White Hoods.

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