Construction of aix-la-chapelle. Pepin the hunchback becoming a monk. Grandes chroniques de france, illuminated by jean fouquet, tours, around 1455-1460 paris, bnf, department of manuscripts, french 6465, fol. 96 (third book of charlemagne) construction of aix-la-chapelle: emperor charlemagne visits a construction site, probably that of the palace of aix-la-chapelle. Pepin the hunchback becoming a monk (in the background on the right): after discovering the plot of his natural son pepin the hunchback, charlemagne attends his entry into the orders. Date: circa 1455.
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