leg threatened to be cancerous. In July, there was a growth in his
mouth. He died July 22nd, convinced that his son had poisoned him.

After July 17th constant bulletins from the king's bedside came to
Louis. Genappe was too far and the anxious son moved to Avesnes
in order to receive his messages more speedily. Our chronicler
Chastellain[19] begins his story of Louis's accession as follows:

"Since I am not English but French, I who am neither Spanish nor
Italian but French, I have written of two Frenchmen, the one king,
the other duke. I have written of their works and their quarrels
and of the favour and glories which God has given them in their
time.

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"Kings die, reigns vanish but virtue alone and meritorious works
serve man on his bier and gain him eternal glory. O you Frenchmen,
see the cause and the end in my labours!"

The guest who had displayed so much humility and thankfulness when he
arrived, who had deprecated honours to his high birth and desired to
offer all the courtesies, departed from the residence so generously
given him for five years in a very cavalier manner.

"Now the king left the duke's territories without having taken
leave nor said adieu to the Countess of Charolais,[20] although he
was in her neighbourhood, and he left behind him the queen, his
wife. The said queen had neither hackneys nor vehicles with which
to follow her husband. Therefore, the king ordered her to borrow