Distasteful as was every item to Louis, he accepted the requisition of those who felt that they were in a position to dictate, and after a little more parleying at later dates, the treaty of Conflans was duly arranged. It was none too soon for the allies. They could hardly have held together many days longer in the midst of the jealousies rife in their camps. The king paused at nothing. To his brother he gave Normandy, to Charles of Burgundy the towns on the Somme with guarantee of possession for his lifetime, while the Count of St. Pol was made Constable of France. [Illustration: LOUIS XI. WITH THE PRINCES AND SEIGNEURS OF THE WAR OF PUBLIC WEAL TAKEN FROM CONTEMPORANEOUS MINIATURE IN ABBEY OF ST. GERMAIN DES PRÉS (COMINES-LENGLET, II., FRONTISPIECE)] Boulogne and Guienne, too, were ceded to Charles, lesser places and pensions to the other confederates. The contest ended with complete victory for the allies who were left with the proud consciousness that they had set a definite limit to royal pretensions, at least, on paper. After the treaty was signed, the king showed no resentment at his defeat but urged his cousin to amuse himself a while in Paris before returning home. Charles was rash, but he had not the temerity to trust himself so far. Pleading a promise to his father to enter no city gate until on paternal soil, he declined the invitation and soon returned to the Netherlands, where his own household had suffered change. During his absence, the Countess of Charolais had died and been buried at Antwerp. Charles is repeatedly lauded for his perfect faithfulness to his wife, but her death seems to have made singularly little ripple on the surface of his life. The chroniclers touch on the event very casually, laying more stress on the opportunity it gave Louis XI. to offer his daughter Anne as her successor, than on the event itself.[15] [Footnote 1: La Marche, ii., 227. Peter von Hagenbach was the chamberlain to enforce this.] [Footnote 2: The receipt for this half payment was signed October 8, 1462. (Comines, _Mémoires_, Lenglet du Fresnoy edition, ii., 392-403.)] [Footnote 3: Du Clercq, iii., 236; Comines-Lenglet, ii., 393.] [Footnote 4: Commines, _Mêmoires_ I., ch. i. In the above passages Dannett's translation is followed for the racy English.] [Footnote 5: Commines says at The Hague; Meyer makes it Gorcum.] [Footnote 6: III., 3.] [Footnote 7: Lavisse iv^{ii}., 336.] [Footnote 8: Chastellain, v., i, etc.] [Footnote 9: V., II.] [Footnote 10: Letter of the Count of Charolais to the citizens of Amiens. (_Collection de Documents inédits sur l'histoire de France_.) "Mélanges," ii., 317. In this collection taken from MS. in the Bibl. Nat. there are many letters private and public about these events.] [Footnote 11: Since its recovery from the English, there had been no duke in Normandy. It was thus the one province open to the king.] [Footnote 12: I., ch. xi. His vivacious story of the siege should be read in detail.]