duke that the time had come for expiating the murder of the Duke of
Orleans, which none of them had forgotten, and raised his battle-axe to
strike the duke. Sire de Navailles, who happened to be at his master's
side, arrested the weapon; but, on the other hand, the Viscount of
Narbonne raised his over Navailles, saying, "Whoever stirs is a dead
man." At this moment, it is said, the mob which was thronging before the
barriers at the end of the bridge heard cries of "Alarm! slay, slay."
Tanneguy had struck and felled the duke; several others ran their swords
into him; and he expired. The _dauphin_ had withdrawn from the scene and
gone back into the town. After his departure his partisans forced the
barrier, charged the dumbfounded Burgundians, sent them flying along the
road to Bray, and returning on to the bridge would have cast the body of
Duke John, after stripping it, into the river; but the minister of
Montereau withstood them, and had it carried to a mill near the bridge.
"Next day he was put in a pauper's shell, with nothing on but his shirt
and drawers, and was subsequently interred at the church of Notre-Dame de
Montereau, without winding-sheet and without pall over his grave."

[Illustration: '"Into the River!"'----77]

The enmities of the Orleannese and the Armagnacs had obtained
satisfaction; but they were transferred to the hearts of the Burgundians.
After twelve years of public crime and misfortune the murder of Louis of
Orleans had been avenged; and should not that of John of Burgundy be, in
its turn? Wherever the direct power or the indirect influence of the
Duke of Burgundy was predominant, there was a burst of indignation and
vindictive passion. As soon as the Count of Charolais, Philip,
afterwards called the Good, heard at Ghent, where he happened at that
time to be, of his father's murder, he was proclaimed Duke of Burgundy.
"Michelle," said he to his wife, sister of the _dauphin_, Charles, "your