But he who reigns must fight.

The Duke of Burgundy, ill content to see a prince of the house of Anjou, the brother-in-law of Charles of Valois, established between Burgundy and Flanders, stirred up against Rene the Count of Vaudemont, who was a claimant of the inheritance of Lorraine.

The Angevin policy rendered a reconciliation between the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France difficult.

Thus was Rene of Anjou involved in the quarrels of his father-in-law of Lorraine.

It befell that in this year, 1429, he was waging war against the citizens of Metz, the War of the Basketful of Apples.[425] It was so called because the cause of war was a basketful of apples which had been brought into the town of Metz without paying duty to the officers of the Duke of Lorraine.[426] [Footnote 423: Le Pere Anselme, _Histoire genealogique de la maison de France_, vol.ii, p.218.Ludovic Drapeyron, _Jeanne d'Arc et Philippe le Bon_, in _Revue de Geographie_, November, 1886, p.236.