1089.] [Footnote 650: Le R.P.Marcellin Fornier, _Histoire generale des Alpes Maritimes ou Cottiennes_, ed.

by the Abbe Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1890-1892 (3 vols.

in 8vo), vol.ii, pp.

313 _et seq._] Charles was pious, and on his knees devoutly heard three masses a day.
Regularly at the canonical hours he repeated the customary prayers in addition to prayers for the dead and other orisons.

Daily he confessed, and communicated on every feast day.[651] But he believed in foretelling events by means of the stars, in which he did not differ from other princes of his time.