g the safety of the French
frontier. Alphonse's prayer for peace might have been instigated by
thoughts of his own needs as well as those of humanity. (Toutey, p.
386.)]

[Footnote 14: Toutey, p. 387.]

[Footnote 15: See Scott's _Anne of Geierstein_. This is the man whom
the author makes the appointed instrument of the _Vehmgericht_ to slay
Charles.]

[Footnote 16: Toutey, p. 388.]

[Footnote 17: _Memoires_, iii., 239.]

[Footnote 18: It is strange that La Marche does not make more of
this scene if he were really there. His sole statement is: "The duke
remained dead on the field of battle, stretched out like the poorest
man in the world and I was taken and others." iii., 240.]

[Footnote 19: _La deconfiture de Monseigneur de Bourgogne faite par
Monseigneur de Lorraine_. Comines-Lenglet, iii., 493.

This brief account was drawn up evidently before the duke's burial was
known by the writer. It may have been written solely to please Louis
XI. Still there is a simplicity about it that holds the attention,
in spite of the fact that the story is not accepted by critical
historians.]

[Footnote 20: La Marche, iii., 240.]

[Footnote 21: Comines v., ch. x.]

[Footnote 22: _Lettres_ vi., p. 111.]

[Footnote 23: Renan, _Qu'est ce qu'une nation_.]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

There is an enormous mass of literature bearing upon the later years
of Philip of Burgundy and the brief career of Charles the Bold. Fairly
adequate bibliographies can be found in Pirenne and Molinier (see
list). The following list contains the full titles of the chief works
to which direct reference is made in the text but falls far short of a
complete description of the matter, contemporaneous or critical, which
has coloured the treatment of the subject.

When extracts have been taken from matter quoted by other writers the
reference is to the later books only.

_Archives curieuses de l'histoire de France_. Vol. i. (Paris, 1834.)
Contains _Le cabinet du roy Louis XI.; Discours du siege de Beauvais,
en_ 1472, etc.

BARANTE, M. DE. _Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de
Valois. Avec des remarques par le baron de Reiffenberg._ 6th ed. 10
vols. (Brussels, 1835.)

BASIN, THOMAS, 1412-1491. _Histoire des regnes de Charles VII. et de
Louis XI._ (Latin text). Ed. J.E.J. Quicherat. 2 vols. (Paris, 1855.)

BEAUCOURT, G. DU FRESNE, MARQUIS DE. _Histoire de Charles VII_ . 6
vols. (Paris, 1890.)

BLOK, P.J. _Eene Hollandsche stad onder de