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The parents were soon followed to the grave by their eldest offspring the duke of Bretagne, in the sixth year of his age; so that of the duke of Burgundy's children, none remained alive but the duke of Anjou, the late French king, who was at that time a sickly infant.
"That, at least, is good news," she replied, "and I make sure he will soon come to Burgundy's help." "I am sure he is now on his way," I answered. "What can Burgundy do?" she asked, turning to Castleman and me. "You will each advise advise the princess, I hope." "If she wishes my poor advice," I responded, "she has but to ask it." "And mine," said Castleman, tipping his goblet over his nose.
And, in Compiegne, we heard how the English and the main army of Burgundians had turned, late in the day, and crossed by the Duke of Burgundy's bridge, leaving men to keep guard there.
Commynes hesitated a long while; but Louis was even more perseveringly persistent than Commynes was hesitating. The king backed up his handsome offers by substantial and present gifts. In 1471, according to what appears, he lent Commynes six thousand livres of Tours, which the Duke of Burgundy's councillor lodged with a banker at Tours.
Still, for three years they made head against their foes; till in 1418 the Duke of Burgundy's friends opened Paris's gates to his soldiers, and for the time the Armagnacs seemed to be completely defeated; only the Dauphin Charles made feeble war from Poitiers.
They exercised it for ten years, from 1392 to 1402, without any great dispute between themselves the Duke of Burgundy's influence being predominant or with the king, who, save certain lucid intervals, took merely a nominal part in the government. During this period no event of importance disturbed France internally.
But nothing came up to the Duke of Burgundy's ship; it was painted all over outside with blue and gold, and there were five huge banners with the arms of the duchy of Burgundy and the countships of Flanders, Artois, Rethel, and Burgundy, and everywhere the duke's device, 'I'm a-longing." The young king, too, displayed great anxiety to enter on the campaign.
Still, for three years they made head against their foes; till in 1418 the Duke of Burgundy's friends opened Paris's gates to his soldiers, and for the time the Armagnacs seemed to be completely defeated; only the Dauphin Charles made feeble war from Poitiers.
Louis yielded neither to words, nor to sorrows of which proofs were reaching him nearly every day. He remained impassive at the Duke of Burgundy's, where he seemed to be waiting with scandalous indifference for the news of his father's death. Charles sank into a state of profound melancholy and general distrust.
But this resolution was altered as soon as he was certain of the Duke of Burgundy's death. Upon the King's receiving the above-mentioned first letter which gave no account of the Duke's death he immediately sent to Tours, to summon all his captains and other great personages to attend him. Upon their arrival he communicated his letters to them.
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