4 Edith Bannerman, Les influences françaises en Écosse au temps de Marie Stuart, Besançon, impr.Along with the foreign goods, foreign merchants, foreign sailors, foreign fishermen, foreign craftsmen, foreign labourers, foreign artists and foreign musicians were a feature of ordinary life in Scotland, Lorraine and France. By the time of James IV, if we base our calculations on the speed of correspondence, Tours was five and half weeks away from Edinburgh and goods and people travelled from Scotland to France and from France to Scotland on a daily basis: Scottish fish, hides, leather, iron, lead, silver were exported while French wine, spices, ready-made clothes, soft furnishings, jewellery, artwork and books were imported. 3 The French and the Scots were not only tied militarily by the successive treaties of the Auld Alliance but they developed over the centuries strong cultural, intellectual and commercial bonds. 3 Eric Durot, « Le crépuscule de l’Auld Alliance: la légitimité du pouvoir en question entre Écosse, (.)Ģ The evolution between these two representations of Scotland – the former, which dates back to when the first alliance treaty was signed with France in 1295, and the latter, drawn at a time that Eric Durot has called “the twilight of the Auld Alliance” (1558-1561) – also illustrates the tighter links between Scotland and parts of Europe starting with France.
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