I never loved anybody as I loved him," he used to say; "I would have trusted my son and my kingdom to him.

He has done me good service; but he cannot say that I did not save his life three times.

I pulled him out of the enemy's hands at Fontaine-Francaise so wounded and so dazed with blows, that, as I had acted soldier in saving him, I also acted marshal as regarded the retreat." Biron nevertheless prosecuted his ambitious designs; the independent sovereignty of Burgundy was what he aspired to, and any alliance, any plot, was welcome as a stepping-stone.

"Caesar or nothing," he would say.

"I will not die without seeing my head on a quarter-crown piece." He entered into flagrant conspiracy with the King of Spain, with the Duke of Savoy, with the French malcontents, the Duke of Bouillon, and the Count of Auvergne.
Henry IV.