E.Cosneau, _op.

cit._, p.

144.] In the midst of such miseries, King Charles, thin, dwarfed in mind and body, cowering, timorous, suspicious, cut a sorry figure.

Yet he was as good as another; and perhaps at that time he was just the king that was needed.

A Philippe of Valois or a Jean le Bon would have amused himself by losing his provinces at the point of the sword.