Apart from the illegitimate ties which connected him, by marriage, to this great family and certainly militated in his favor, his sound good sense had so often been proved by the duke that the old man had now become his master's most valued counsellor.

Beauvouloir was the Coyctier of this Louis XI.

Nevertheless, and no matter how valuable his knowledge might be, he never obtained over the government of Normandy, in whom was the ferocity of religious warfare, as much influence as feudality exercised over that rugged nature.

For this reason the physician was confident that the prejudices of the noble would thwart the desires and the vows of the father..