Battle of Pontvallain Edward III's mistress Alice Perrers. Knolles' campaign has been estimated to have cost Edward III somewhere in the region of £66,667 (), based on his known requests for loans. But the chevauchée that preceded the battle yielded, it has been said, "plunder but little military benefit," while Maurice Keen noted that even though Knolles had reached the gates of Paris, "he had little to show for it when he reached Brittany." and illustrated how much the Hundred Years' War had changed in character by now. According to Christopher Allmand, "the days of Crécy and Poitiers were over." Pontvallain "destroyed the
The Mistress of the Inn giocoso". In 1800 the German composer Simon Mayr and Italian librettist Gaetano Rossi adapted it as a two-act "dramma giocoso". The American composer Henry Kimball Hadley adapted it as a one-act comic opera called "Bianca", which was first performed in 1918. Bohuslav Martinů also produced an operatic version, his three-act "Mirandolina", which was first performed in 1959. The play was also adapted into several films, notably Paolo Cavara's "La locandiera" and Tinto Brass' "Miranda". The Mistress of the Inn The Mistress of the Inn ( ), also translated as "The Innkeeper Woman" or "Mirandolina" (after the play's main character), is