had at his disposal were of but moderate worth.

He had three brothers and three sisters calculated rather to embarrass and sometimes even injure him than to be of any service to him.

Of his brothers, the eldest, Louis, Duke of Anjou, was restless, harsh, and bellicose.

He upheld authority with no little energy in Languedoc, of which Charles had made him governor, but at the same time made it detested; and he was more taken up with his own ambitious views upon the kingdom of Naples, which Queen Joan of Hungary had transmitted to him by adoption, than with the interests of France and her king.

The second, John, Duke of Berry, was an insignificant prince, who has left no strong mark on history.