He believed De Clisson to be dead, and left him bathed in blood at a baker's door in the street called Culture-Sainte-Catherine.

The king was just going to bed, when one of his people came and said to him, "Ah! sir, a great misfortune has happened in Paris." "What, and to whom ?" said the king.

"To your constable, sir, who has just been slain." "Slain!" cried Charles; "and by whom ?" "Nobody knows; but it was close by here, in St.Catherine Street." "Lights! quick!" said the king; "I will go and see him;" and he set off, without waiting for his following.

When he entered the baker's shop, De Clisson, grievously wounded, was just beginning to recover his senses.

"Ah! constable," said the king, "and how do you feel ?" "Very poorly, dear sir." "And who brought you to this pass ?" "Peter de Craon and his accomplices; traitorously and without warning." "Constable," said the king, "never was anything so punished or dearly paid for as this shall be; take thought for yourself, and have no further care; it is my affair." Orders were immediately given to seek out Peter de Craon, and hurry on his trial.