had shown scarcely more confidence to his son than to his people.

Louis yielded neither to words, nor to sorrows of which proofs were reaching him nearly every day.

He remained impassive at the Duke of Burgundy's, where he seemed to be waiting with scandalous indifference for the news of his father's death.

Charles sank into a state of profound melancholy and general distrust.

He had his doctor, Adam Fumee, put in prison; persuaded himself that his son had wished, and was still wishing, to poison him; and refused to take any kind of nourishment.