 After Isabeau 's crowning , the procession made its way back from the cathedral along a route lit by 500 candles . They were greeted by a royal feast , and a progression of narrative pageants complete with a depiction of the Fall of Troy . Isabeau , seven months pregnant , nearly fainted from heat on the first of the five days of festivities . To pay for the extravagant event , taxes were raised in Paris two months later . 
