[Footnote 16:] "[Cette] paix jura le Due de Bourgogne et y estois présent.">[
[Footnote 17:] [The] king's envoys who had spent the winter in the Burgundian court. See letter to them in December.]
[Footnote 18:] [See] Kervyn, Bulletin de l'Academie royale de Belgique, p. 256. Also Kirk, ii., 160; Commynes-Mandrot, i., 234.]
[Footnote 19:] [Louis] to the Vicomte de la Belliére, Lettres, etc., iv., 319.]
[Footnote 20:] [Louis] to Dammartin, Ibid., 325. Mars was written first and then replaced by Mai.]
[Footnote 21:] [Odet] d'Aydie, younger brother of the Seigneur de Lescun.]
[Footnote 22:] [Lettres], XI., iv., 328. Louis to Dammartin, 1472.]
[Footnote 23:] [Lettres], iv., 331. Louis to the Duke of Milan.]
[Footnote 24:] [Lettres], etc., v., 4. Louis to Dammartin. See also Duclos, v., 331. There are slight discrepancies between the two texts, but the differences do not affect the narrative.]
[Footnote 25:] [Odet] d'Aydie, whom Louis had hoped to have converted to his cause, was the man to spread the charge against Louis broadcast over the land. The truth of the death is not proven. Frequent mentions of Guienne's condition occur through the letters of the winter '71-72. The story was that the poison, administered subtly by the king's orders, caused the illness of both the prince and his mistress, Mme. de Thouan. She died after two months of suffering, December 14th, while he resisted the poison longer, though his health was completely shattered and his months of longer life were unutterably wretched and painful, a constant torture until death mercifully released him in May. Accusations of poisoning are often repeated in history. In this case, there was certainly a wide-spread belief in Louis's guilt. In his manifestos, (Lenglet, ii., 198) Charles declares that the king's tools in compassing his brother's death were a friar, Jourdain Favre, and Henri de la Roche, esquire of his kitchen.