A few days before the time, Duke John set out from Provins with the king, Queen Isabel, and Princess Catherine, and repaired first of all to Pontoise, and then to the place fixed for the interview, on the borders of the Seine, near Meulan, where two pavilions had been prepared, one for the King of France and the other for the King of England.

Charles VI., being ill, remained at Pontoise.

Queen Isabel, Princess Catherine, and the Duke of Burgundy arrived at the appointed spot.

Henry V.was already there; he went to meet the queen, saluted her, took her hand, and embraced her and Madame Catherine as well; Duke John slightly bent his knee to the king, who raised him up and embraced him likewise.

This solemn interview was succeeded by several others to which Princess Catherine did not come.