ique et social des ducs de Bourgogne_, p.
183.)]

[Footnote 3: Letters are preserved in the Cologne archives. (Toutey,
p. 64.)]

[Footnote 4: Toutey, p. 66. This document is in the Cologne archives.]

[Footnote 5:_See_ Toutey, p. 66. These are printed in Lacomblet,
_Urkunden_, iv., 468, 470.]

[Footnote 6: Jean de Roye is the only contemporary to tell this story.
Both Toutey and Kirk reject it. (_See_ Toutey, p. 76; Kirk, ii.,
271.)]

[Footnote 7: Toutey's suggestion.]

[Footnote 8: All sons inherited their father's title, so that there
were many landless lords.]

[Footnote 9: At this period there were eight in the confederation,
which was a loose structure in which each member preserved her
individuality.]

[Footnote 10: _See_ Toutey, p. 82, who quotes from the _Cartulaire de
Mulhouse_, iv., _et passim_. This last furnishes the details for these
passages.]

[Footnote 11: In this account Toutey's conclusions are accepted. There
are discrepancies as to dates among the various chroniclers. The
duke's itinerary as given in Comines-Lenglet (ii., 211) does not agree
with that of Knebel and others. But the facts of the narrative are
little affected by the variations. The following is the itinerary
accepted by Toutey:

Dep. from Ensisheim Jan. 8
Stay at Thann " 9-10
Dep. from Belfort " 11
Besancon " 17
Auxonne, slept " 18
Dijon, a " 23
Dijon, d Feb. 19, 1474
Auxonne, slept " 20
Dole " 21-March 8
(Invested with the Franche Comte of Burgundy.)
Besancon March 12 or 15
Vesoul and Luxeuil March 23-28
Lorraine " 28
Luxemburg Apr. 4-June 9
Easter fetes " 10
Fete of the Order of the Garter " 23
Brussels June 27]

[Footnote 12: Kirk considers that they are well founded and too
indecent to repeat.]

CHAPTER XIX

THE FIRST REVERSES

1474-1475

"Who is this that cometh, this that is glorious in his apparel,
travelling in the greatness of his strength?" These words in Latin,
on scrolls fluttering from the hands of living angels, met the eyes
of Charles of Burgundy