The Strasburg chronicles report that Charles was in a towering rage on receiving this communication. He clinched his fists, ground his teeth, and kicked the furniture about the room in which he had locked himself up.[21] But by the time these words were penned, these authors were better informed than Charles about the ultimate result of the emperor's intentions. The duke may have been angry, but he certainly controlled himself sufficiently to give several audiences in the course of the day--to envoys from Lorraine among others--and was ready to take his own departure by evening, not doubting that the crown and sceptre, carefully packed with the mountain of his valuable treasure, would assuredly fulfil their destiny in the near future. Trèves was left to its pristine repose, and Charles was the last man to realise that in its silence were entombed for ever his chances of wearing the prematurely prepared insignia. [Footnote 1: This comment of the Strasburg chronicler, Trausch, is quoted by De Bussière in his _Histoire de la Ligue contre Charles le Téméraire_, p. 64. Kirk (ii., 222) points out that this contemporary had a peculiar hostility towards Charles.] [Footnote 2: Guillaume Faret or Farrel. His _Hist. de René II._ is lost. This citation from it is found in _La Guerre de René II. contre Charles le Hardi_, by P. Aubert Roland.] [Footnote 3: He had been made knight of the Golden Fleece at the May meeting. From this time on some member of the Nassau family was prominent in Burgundian affairs.] [Footnote 4: Gachard, _Doc. inédits_, i., 232. Letter from Trèves, October 4, 1473.] [Footnote 5: About this time Louis XI. made strenuous efforts to unravel the mystery of his brother's death. (Letter to the chancellor of Brittany, _Lettres de Louis XI_., v., 190.)] [Footnote 6: Gachard could not explain this phrase. It might easily refer to the desired investiture.] [Footnote 7: Chmel, _Mon. Habs_., i., lxxvii., 50, 51: Toutey, p. 50.] [Footnote 8: Toutey, p. 53.] [Footnote 9: Toutey bases this statement on three letters (October 30, 31, and November 7, 1473) written by the envoys of the elector of Brandenburg, Ludwig von Eyb and Hertnid von Stein.] [Footnote 10: Basin, _Histoire des règnes de Charles VII. et de Louis XI._, ii., 323. Between Nov. 6th and this ceremony there had been new ruptures. Hugonet had gone back and forth many times between the chiefs and "all the world had wondered."] [Footnote 11: Albert of Brandenburg to the Duke of Saxony. (Muller, _Reichstag Theatrum_, p. 598.] [Footnote 12: Toutey, p. 57.] [Footnote 13: Toutey, p. 60, note.] [Footnote 14: In this account, differing from the current tradition, Toutey has followed Bachmann's conclusions (_Deutsche Reichsgeschichte,_ ii., 435).] [Footnote 15: Basin, ii., 325.]