Philip remodelled and befriended the university of Louvain.

He founded at Brussels the Burgundian library, which became celebrated throughout Europe.

He levied largely, spent profusely, but was yet so thrifty a housekeeper, as to leave four hundred thousand crowns of gold, a vast amount in those days, besides three million marks' worth of plate and furniture, to be wasted like water in the insane career of his son.
The exploits of that son require but few words of illustration.

Hardly a chapter of European history or romance is more familiar to the world than the one which records the meteoric course of Charles the Bold.

The propriety of his title was never doubtful.