Those magnificent silks and velvets, that cloth of gold and damask, that Flanders lace, and those carpets from Arras which were found heaped up in chests, were cut in pieces and distributed by the ell, like common canvas in a village shop.

The duke's large diamond which he wore round his neck, and which had once upon a time glittered in the crown of the Great Mogul, was found on the road, inside a little box set with fine pearls.

The man who picked it up kept the box and threw away the diamond as a mere bit of glass.

Afterwards he thought better of it; went to look for the stone, found it under a wagon, and sold it for a crown to a clergyman of the neighborhood.

"There was nothing saved but the bare life," says Commynes.
That even the bare life was saved was a source of sorrow to Louis XI.
in the very midst of his joy at the defeat.