It only remained for Charles's cold-blooded son, Louis XI., to finish the work, and mediaevalism was a thing of the past in France.
The reign of Charles was imbittered by the conduct of this unnatural son, whose undisguised impatience to assume the crown so alarmed him that it is said he shortened his own life by abstaining from food in the fear that the dauphin might lay the guilt of parricide upon his soul.
This heart-broken, desolate old man died in 1461.

And Louis XI.

was King of France.
The son of Charles VII.

was a composite of the wisest and the worst of his predecessors.

Indeed, it is to the Roman emperors we must look for a parallel to this monster on a throne.