April

In the meadows of the Chateau de Dourdan, court maidens kneel in their flowing robes to pick spring wild flowers. At the left, the noble in the red cap and the young lady with the long golden hair plight their troth by exchanging rings in the presence of witnesses. In the garden at right, fruit trees, bound and trimmed, are bursting into bloom. Two fishermen haul their net in the small lake in front of the fortress. Inside these high walls the Duc de Berry kept some of the choicest samples of the goldsmith's art as well as many of the illuminated volumes from his great medieval library.