did not put himself out, did not give himself the pleasure of testifying to Rome his discontent; he saw that he had not as yet sufficiently succeeded--sufficiently vanquished his enemies, or won to himself his kingdom with sufficient completeness and definitiveness--to make the pope feel bound to recognize and sanction his triumph.

He set himself once more to work to grow still greater in France, and force the gates of Rome without its being possible to reproach him with violence or ill temper.
He had been absolved and crowned at St.

Denis by the bishops of France; he had not been anointed at Rheims, according to the religious traditions of the French monarchy.

At Rheims he could not be; for it was still in the power of the League.

Researches were made, to discover whether the ceremony of anointment might take place elsewhere; numerous instances were found, and in the case of famous kings: Pepin the Short had been anointed first of all at Mayence, Charlemagne and Louis the Debonnair at Rome, Charles the Bald at Mayence, several emperors at Aix-la-Chapelle and at Cologne.