Commynes hesitated a long while; but Louis was even more perseveringly persistent than Commynes was hesitating.

The king backed up his handsome offers by substantial and present gifts.

In 1471, according to what appears, he lent Commynes six thousand livres of Tours, which the Duke of Burgundy's councillor lodged with a banker at Tours.
The next year, the king, seeing that Commynes was still slow to decide, bade one of his councillors to go to Tours, in his name, and seize at the banker's the six thousand livres intrusted to the latter by Commynes.
"This," says the learned editor of the last edition of Commynes' Memoires, "was an able and decisive blow.

The effect of the seizure could not but be, and indeed was, to put Commynes in the awkward dilemma of seeing his practices (as the saying was at that time) divulged without reaping the fruit of them, or of securing the advantages only by setting aside the scruples which held him back.

He chose the latter course, which had become the safer; and during the night between the 7th and 8th of August, 1472, he left Burgundy forever.