29/141 The time will come when we will make those councillors, and the king himself, rue it. Let them do as they please, by God: we will return to our own dominions. We are none the less the two greatest in the kingdom, and so long as we are united, none can do aught against us." The future is a blank, as well to the anxieties as to the hopes of men. On the 13th of June, 1392, the constable, Oliver de Clisson, was waylaid as he was returning home after a banquet given by the king at the hostel of St.Paul. The assassin was Peter de Craon, cousin of John IV., Duke of Brittany. |