[Footnote 1: Chastellain, v., 570.] [Footnote 2: V., 576.] [Footnote 3: This deputation was composed of representatives from "all the city in its entirety in three chief members--the bourgeois and nobles, the fifty-two _métiers_, and the weavers who possess twelve different places in the city entirely for themselves and in their control." The formal apology was made later. (Chastellain, v., 291.)] [Footnote 4: _Ibid_ 306. By letters patent given on July 28, 1467, Duke Charles pardoned the Ghenters and confirmed the privileges which he had conceded to them, but he exacted that a deputation from the three members [_Trois membres_] of the city should come to Brussels to beg pardon on their knees, bareheaded, ungirded, for all the disorder of St. Lievin. This act of submission took place probably not until January, 1469, though August 8, 1468, is also mentioned as the date.] [Footnote 5: _Hist, de l'Ordre_, etc., p. 511.] [Footnote 6: Chastellain, V., 342.] [Footnote 7: III., 101. Evidently this was composed for a separate work and then incorporated into the memoirs.] [Footnote 8: There is a beautiful portrait of her in MS. 9275 in the Bibliothèque de Burgogne. _See_ also Wavrin, _Anchiennes Croniques d'Engleterre_, ii., 368.] [Footnote 9: III., 108.] [Footnote 10: _The Paston Letters_, ii., 317.] CHAPTER XI THE MEETING AT PERONNE 1468 "My brother, I beseech you in the name of our affection and of our alliance, come to my aid, come as speedily as you can, come without delay. Written by the own hand of your brother. "FRANCIS." Such were the concluding sentences of a fervent appeal from the Duke of Brittany that followed Charles into Holland, whither he had hastened after the completion of the nuptial festivities. The titular Duke of Normandy found that his royal brother was in no wise inclined to fulfil the solemn pledges made at Conflans. His ally, Francis, Duke of Brittany, was plunged into terror lest the king should invade his duchy and punish him for his share in the proceedings that had led up to that compact. It is in this year that Louis XI. begins to show his real astuteness. Very clever are his methods of freeing himself from the distasteful obligations assumed towards his brother. They had been easy to make when a hostile army was encamped at the gates of Paris. Then Normandy weighed lightly when balanced by the desire to separate the allies. That separation accomplished, the point of view changed. Relinquish Normandy, restored by the hand of heaven to its natural liege lord after its long retention by the English kings? Louis's intention gradually became plain and he proved that he was no longer in the isolated position in which the War for Public Weal had found him. He had won to himself many adherents, while the general tone towards Charles of Burgundy had changed.[1]