It was his worst fault that he was always tired, and through that everlasting weariness he came to entrust the determining of most affairs to His Eminence.

Hence has it resulted that the censure for many questionable acts of his reign, which were the work of my Lord Cardinal, has recoiled upon my august master's head.
But to me, with all the faults that may be assigned him, he was ever Louis the Just, and wherever his name be mentioned in my hearing, I bare my head..