to the dowager Duchess of Burgundy, begging her, her and her children, "to set in motion all their relatives, friends, and vassals to avenge Duke John." At Paris, on the 12th of September, the next day but one after the murder, the chancellor, the parliament, the provost royal, the provost of tradesmen, and all the councillors and officers of the king assembled, "together with great number of nobles and burgesses and a great multitude of people," who all swore "to oppose with their bodies and all their might the enterprise of the criminal breakers of the peace, and to prosecute the cause of vengeance and reparation against those who were guilty of the death and homicide of the late Duke of Burgundy." Independently of party-passion, such was, in Northern and Eastern France, the general and spontaneous sentiment of the people.

The _dauphin_ and his councillors, in order to explain and justify their act, wrote in all directions to say that, during the interview, Duke John had answered the _dauphin_ "with mad words.

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He had felt for his sword in order to attack and outrage our person, the which, as we have since found out, he aspired to place in subjection.