Whoso wishes to persuade me otherwise is not of my friends, and is displeasing to me." A letter from the Queen of Arragon gave some ground for supposing that Peter de Craon had taken refuge in Spain; and the Duke of Burgundy took advantage of it to dissuade the king from his prompt departure for the war in Brittany.

"At the very least," he said, "it was right to send to Arragon to know the truth of the matter, and to thank the queen for her courtesy." "We are quite willing, uncle," answered Charles: "you need not be vexed; but for my own part I hold that this traitor of a Peter de Craon is in no other prison and no other Barcelona than there is in being quite comfortable at the Duke of Brittany's." There was no way of deterring him from his purpose.

He had got together his uncles and his troops at Le Mans; and, after passing three weeks there, he gave the word to march for Brittany.

The tragic incident which at that time occurred has nowhere been more faithfully or better narrated than in M.de Barante's History of the Dukes of Burgundy.

"It was," says he, "the beginning of August, 1392, during the hottest days of the year.