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Then Morvilliers to his former speech added that he could not imagine what had moved the earl to enter into the league with the Duke of Brittany unless it were because of a pension the king had once given him together with the government of Normandy and afterwards taken from him.
Morvilliers used very bitter terms in his assertion that Charles had illegally stopped a little French ship of war and arrested a certain bastard of Rubempré on the false charge that his errand in Holland, where the incident occurred, was to seize and carry off Charles himself. Moreover, one knight of Burgundy, Sir Olivier de La Marche had caused this tale to be bruited everywhere,
During this time the king had signed the act prepared beforehand by M. de Morvilliers, the only person, with the exception of the queen mother, who was in the secret, then he passed the pen to the Duc de Guise, saying: "Sign, my cousin; there, below me, now pass it to M. le Cardinal and M. de Mayenne." But these two had already disappeared.
The same day on which Robert d'Estouteville took the place of Jacques de Villiers in the provostship of Paris, Master Jehan Dauvet replaced Messire Helye de Thorrettes in the first presidency of the Court of Parliament, Jehan Jouvenel des Ursins supplanted Pierre de Morvilliers in the office of chancellor of France, Regnault des Dormans ousted Pierre Puy from the charge of master of requests in ordinary of the king's household.
Only three days had Philip de Commines been page to Duke Philip, then resident at Lille, when an embassy headed by Morvilliers, Chancellor of France, was given audience in the presence of the Burgundian court, including the Count of Charolais. The future historian, then nineteen years old, was keenly alive to all that passed on that November fifth, 1464.
The French army engaged was annihilated. Marshal de Thermes, with a wound in the head, Senarpont, Annibault, Villefon, Morvilliers, Chanlis, and many others of high rank were prisoners. The French monarch had not much heart to set about the organization of another army; a task which he was now compelled to undertake.
"Yes, all three of you." "How, it was you! wretch!" "I, myself," said Chicot, rubbing his hands, "do I not hit hard?" "Wretch!" "You confess, it was true?" "You know it is, villain." "Did you send for M. de Morvilliers the next day?" "You know I did, for you were there when he came." "And you told him the accident that had happened to one of your friends?" "Yes."
"Annoyed! if you wake a man at two o'clock in the morning, at least you should bring him a present. Have you anything for me?" "No; I come to talk to you." "That is not enough." "Chicot, M. de Morvilliers came here last evening." "What for?" "To ask for an audience. What can he want to say to me, Chicot?" "What! it is only to ask that, that you wake me?"
Morvilliers, keeper of the seals to Charles the Ninth of France, was one day ordered by his sovereign to put the seals to the pardon of a nobleman who had committed murder. He refused.
A burst of laughter followed this speech; then M. de Morvilliers said, "They have had one meeting-place which M. Chicot does not know of." "Where?" asked the king. "The Abbey of St. Genevieve." "Impossible!" murmured the duke. "It is true," said M. de Morvilliers, triumphantly. "What did they decide?" asked the king. The king smiled. "Should be massacred on a given day."
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