Fontaine-le-Sorel

Fontaine-le-Sorel is connected to the events surrounding Jean de Carrouges and Marguerite de Carrouges through the road they followed to Capomesnil in the winter of 1385–86. Its importance in the account is geographical but consequential: it anchors their journey to the place where the alleged crime occurred and where their lives entered their most turbulent chapter.

Route and Setting

The road from Fontaine-le-Sorel led toward Capomesnil, and Jean and Marguerite followed it there during the winter of 1385–86. The account places the journey in a broader rural landscape of routes linking settlements across Normandy; it does not establish that Fontaine-le-Sorel was their home or specify how long they remained there.

Connection to the Central Conflict

The journey brought the couple to Capomesnil as the events leading to Marguerite’s accusation against Jacques Le Gris were unfolding. In the account of the accusation, Le Gris allegedly told Marguerite that he knew Jean had returned from abroad with little or no money. Fontaine-le-Sorel’s relevance is therefore tied to the route into this episode, while the reported remark supplies a separate detail about Le Gris’s claimed knowledge of Jean’s circumstances.