The king, without further waiting, thanked his uncles for the care they had taken of his dominions and of himself, and begged them to continue their affection for him.

Neither the Duke of Burgundy nor the Duke of Berry had calculated upon this resolution; they submitted, without making any objection, but not without letting a little temper leak out.

The Duke of Berry even said that he and his brother would beg the king to confer with them more maturely on the subject when he returned to Paris.

Hereupon the council broke up; the king's two uncles started for their own dominions; and a few weeks afterwards the Cardinal-bishop of Laon died of a short illness.

"It was generally believed," says the monk of St.
Denis, "that he died of poison." At his own dying wish, no inquiry was instituted on this subject.