It was a serious matter for him to commit himself more and more, by his own proper motion, against the King of England and his old allies amongst the populace of Paris.

Why should he be required to go in person to seek the _dauphin_?
It was far simpler, he said, for Charles to come to the king his father.

Tanneguy Duchatel went to Troyes to tell the duke that the _dauphin_ had come to meet him as far as Montereau, and, with the help of the lady of Giae, persuaded on his side, to Bray-sur-Seine, two leagues from Montereau.

When the two princes had drawn thus near, their agents proposed that the interview should take place on the very bridge of Montereau, with the precautions and according to the forms decided on.
In the duke's household many of his most devoted servants were opposed to this interview; the place, they said, had been chosen by and would be under the ordering of the _dauphin_'s people, of the old servants of the Duke of Orleans and the Count of Armagnac.

At the same time four successive messages came from Paris urging the duke to make the plunge; and at last he took his resolution.