A larger number of the gallant chivalry of France had been sacrificed--as Anjou confessed--in this treacherous and most shameful enterprise, than had often fallen upon noble and honorable fields.

Nearly two thousand of the rank and file had perished, and the rest were prisoners.

It was at first asserted that exactly fifteen hundred and eighty-three Frenchmen had fallen, but this was only because this number happened to be the date of the year, to which the lovers of marvellous coincidences struggled very hard to make the returns of the dead correspond.

Less than one hundred burghers lost their lives.
Anjou, as he looked on at a distance, was bitterly reproached for his treason by several of the high-minded gentlemen about his person, to whom he had not dared to confide his plot.

The Duke of Montpensier protested vehemently that he washed his hands of the whole transaction, whatever might be the issue.