[Footnote 29: Legend makes it that Jeanne Laisné, called _Fouquet_, chopped off the hands of the standard-bearer with a hatchet. Hence her name was changed to _La Hachette_, and she is represented with a hatchet.] [Footnote 30: Barante, vii., 333.] [Footnote 31: _See_ Lavisse, iv^{ii.}, 368.] [Footnote 32: "Berri est mort, Bretagne dort, Bourgogne hongne, Le Roy besogne." Le Roux de Lincy, _Chants historiques et populaires du temps de Louis XI_.] [Footnote 33: Commines also mentions here "the confessor of the Duke of Guienne and a knight to whom is imputed the death of the Duke of Guienne." (iii., ch. xi.)] [Footnote 34: Kirk (ii., 156) thinks that this confiscation was only Louis's way of prodding him up to act.] [Footnote 35: Dupont (Commynes, iii., xxxvi). The fugitive did not enter immediately into his new possessions. The king's gift of the principality of Talmont, dated October, 1472, was not registered in _Parlement_ until December 13, 1473, and in the court of records May 2, 1474. Prince of Talmont did Commines become at last, and as such he married Helen de Chambes, January 27, 1473.] [Footnote 36: It is strange that La Marche does not mention this defection.] [Footnote 37: See document quoted by Gachard, _Études et Notices_, etc. ii., 344. The original is in the Croy family archives preserved in the château of Beaumont.] [Footnote 38: _See also_ Comines-Lenglet, i., xcj., for discussion of this event. He asserts that the court of Burgundy was too corrupt for honest men to endure it.] [Footnote 39: _See_ Stein. _Étude_, etc., _sur Olivier de la _Marche_. (Mém. Couronnés) xlix.] [Footnote 40: Letter of Louis XI. in Bibl. Nat.: _Ibid._, p. 179.] CHAPTER XVI GUELDERS 1473 The affairs of the little duchy of Guelders were among the matters urgently demanding the attention of the Duke of Burgundy at the close of his campaign in France. The circumstances of the long-standing quarrel between Duke Arnold and his unscrupulous son Adolf were a scandal throughout Europe. In 1463, a seeming reconciliation of the parties had not only been effected but celebrated in the town of Grave by a pleasant family festival, from whose gaieties the elder duke, fatigued, retired at an early hour. Scarcely was he in bed, when he was aroused rudely, and carried off half clad to a dungeon in the castle of Buren, by the order of his son, who superintended the abduction in person and then became duke regnant. For over six years the old man languished in prison, actually taunted, from time to time, it is said, by Duke Adolf himself.