Street." "Lights! quick!" said the king; "I will go and see him;" and he
set off, without waiting for his following. When he entered the baker's
shop, De Clisson, grievously wounded, was just beginning to recover his
senses. "Ah! constable," said the king, "and how do you feel?" "Very
poorly, dear sir." "And who brought you to this pass?" "Peter de Craon
and his accomplices; traitorously and without warning." "Constable,"
said the king, "never was anything so punished or dearly paid for as this
shall be; take thought for yourself, and have no further care; it is my
affair." Orders were immediately given to seek out Peter de Craon, and
hurry on his trial. He had taken refuge, first in his own castle of
Sable, and afterwards with the Duke of Brittany, who kept him concealed,
and replied to the king's envoys that he did not know where he was. The
king proclaimed his intention of making war on the Duke of Brittany until
Peter de Craon should be discovered, and justice done to the constable.
Preparations for war were begun; and the Dukes of Berry and Burgundy
received orders to get ready for it, themselves and their vassals. The
former, who happened to be in Paris at the time of the attack, did not
care to directly oppose the king's project; but he evaded, delayed, and
predicted a serious war. According to Froissart, he had been warned, the
morning before the attack, by a simple cleric, of Peter de Craon's
design; but, "It is too late in the day," he had said; "I do not like to
trouble the king to-day; to-morrow, without fail, we will see to it." He
had, however, forgotten or neglected to speak to his nephew. Neither he
nor his brother, the Duke of Burgundy, there is reason to suppose, were
accomplices in the attack upon De Clisson, but they were not at all sorry
for it. It was to them an incident in the strife begun between
themselves, princes of the blood royal, and those former councillors of
Charles V., and now, again, of Charles VI., whom, with the impertinence
of great lords, they were wont to call the marinosettes. They left
nothing undone to avert the king's anger and to preserve the Duke of