Quotation from: A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3

Written by: Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot


On the 11th of October, Duke Charles, having cooled down a little,
assembled his council. The sitting lasted all the day and part of the
night. Louis had sent to make an offer to swear a peace, such as, at the
moment of his arrival, had been proposed to him, without any reservation
or difficulty on his part. He engaged to join the duke in making war
upon the Liegese and chastising them for their rebellion. He would leave
as hostages his nearest relatives and his most intimate advisers. At the
beginning of the council his proposals were not even listened to; there
was no talk but of keeping the king a prisoner, and sending after his
brother, the Prince Charles, with whom the entire government of the
kingdom should be arranged; the messenger had orders to be in readiness
to start at once; his horse was in the court-yard; he was only waiting
for the letters which the duke was writing to Brittany. The chancellor
of Burgundy and some of the wiser councillors besought the duke to
reflect.

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