Had I been willing to augment their pay, and permit them to trample their vassals under foot as in time past, they would never have given a thought to the common weal.

They pretend that they desire to establish order everywhere, and yet they cannot endure it anywhere; whilst I, without drawing from my people more than was drawn by the late king, pay my men-at-arms well, and keep them in a good state of discipline." Louis, in his latter words, was a little too boastful.

He had very much augmented the imposts without assembling the estates, and without caring for the old public liberties.

If he frequently repressed local tyranny on the part of the lords, he did not deny himself the practice of it.
Amongst other tastes, he was passionately fond of the chase; and, wherever he lived, he put it down amongst his neighbors, noble or other, without any regard for rights of lordship.

Hounds, hawking birds, nets, snares, all the implements of hunting were forbidden.