Part 8 (1/2)

Undoubtedly, though, the king was much surprised at his son's action.

He had rather expected him to take refuge somewhere but he never thought that the Duke of Burgundy would be his protector--a strange choice to his mind. ”My cousin of Burgundy nourishes a fox who will eat his chickens” is reported as another comment of this impartial father.[24] Like many a phrase, possibly the fruit of later harvests, this is an excellent epitome of the situation.

[Footnote 1: I.,ch. x.x.xi.]

[Footnote 2:II.,204.]

[Footnote 3: Barante, vi.,50.]

[Footnote 4: Some of the canons wrote their reasons after their recorded vote: ”Because Duke Philip had made the candidate member of his council of Holland, Zealand, and Friesland, in which office Gijsbrecht had acquitted himself well.” ”Because all the Sticht n.o.bles were his relations,” etc.--(Wagenaar, _Vaderlandsche Historie,_ iv., 50.)]

[Footnote 5: Du Clercq, ii., 210.]

[Footnote 6: _Memoires_, i., ch. x.x.xiii.]

[Footnote 7: II., 315.]

[Footnote 8: See Lavisse, iv^{ii}., 317.]

[Footnote 9: For the effects of operations on a large scale see _Jacques Coeur and Charles VII_., by Pierre Clemart.]

[Footnote 10: _Duclos_, ”Hist. de Louis XI.,” _OEuvres Completes_ v., 8.]

[Footnote 11: Duclos, iii., 78.]

[Footnote 12: See Lavisse, iv^{ii}., 292.]

[Footnote 13: II.,223.]

[Footnote 14: _Lettres de Louis XI_., i., 77.

According to the editor, Vaesen, the original of this letter shows that _September 2nd_ was written first and erased.]

[Footnote 15: Chastellain, iii., 185.]

[Footnote 16: Du Clercq, ii., 228.]

[Footnote 17: Chastellain iii., 197.]

[Footnote 18: See _Sejour de Louis XI. aux Pays-Bas;_ Reiffenberg: Nouveaux mem. de l'Acad. Royale, 1829.]

[Footnote 19: Alienor de Poictiers, _Les Honneurs de la Cour_, ii., 208. It was early in October.]

[Footnote 20: This date, November 11th, does not agree with the others.]

[Footnote 21: ”At that time they did not say Madame, for Monsieur was not the son of a sovereign.”--La Marche, ii., 410, note.]

[Footnote 22: La Marche, ii., 410: ”Dieu quel parrain!”]