He drew over Ferdinand to his party, though that monarch at first made no declaration of his intentions.

And what he chiefly valued, he formed a treaty with the Swiss cantons, who, enraged by some neglects put upon them by Lewis, accompanied with contumelious expressions, had quitted the alliance of France, and waited for an opportunity of revenging themselves on that nation.
* Guicciard.lib.

viii.
** Spel.Concil.

vol.ii.p.

725.
{1511.} While the French monarch repelled the attacks of his enemies, he thought it also requisite to make an attempt on the pope himself, and to despoil him as much as possible of that sacred character which chiefly rendered him formidable.