Saint-Pol received commands to accompany the heralds to Louviers, so had to content himself with a messenger to the trobador and a letter which announced the extreme happiness of the great Count of Poictou.

This, he knew, would draw the poison-bag.
The Frenchmen arrived at Louviers none too soon.

As well mix fire and ice as Poictevin with Norman or Angevin with Angevin.

The princes stalked about with claws out of velvet, the nobles bickered fiercely, and the men-at-arms did after their kind.

There was open fighting.
Gaston of Bearn picked a quarrel with John Botetort, and they fought it out with daggers in the fosse.