Hôtel Barbette

The king himself, by the late 14th century, preferred to live not on the island, but at the Hotel Saint-Paul, a sprawling complex of houses and gardens in the east of the Reich Bank.

The Queen had her own residences nearby, including the Hotel Barbette, which is where our Duke of Orléans had been visiting on the night he died.

So picture the map.

Admins in the middle, students on one side, merchants, craftsmen and princes on the other.

The murder had been planned months in advance.

Burgundian agents had been looking for a house to rent in the area as early as June 1407.

Eventually, they took a house on the Rue Vieille du Temple, on the route that Louis often travelled between the Hotel Barbette, where the Queen was living, and the King's residence at the Hotel Saint-Paul.

The men who would carry out the attack moved in and waited.