Rumours went abroad that his mental balance was shaken. That does not seem to have been true to the extent of insanity. He was only infinitely chagrined but he certainly put on a brave front and retained his self-confidence and declared
"They are wrong if they believe me defeated. Providence has provided me with so many people and estates with such abundant resources, that many such defeats would be needed to ruin them. At the moment when the world imagines that I am annihilated, I will reopen the campaign with an army of 150,000 men."[22]
[Footnote 1:] [Lettres] de Louis XI., v., 368.]
[Footnote 2:] [Nos] omnes relinquens, Ibid., 371.]
[Footnote 3:] [Commynes]-Dupont, i., 336.]
[Footnote 4:] [Lettres], v., 363. Louis to Dammartin.]
[Footnote 5:] [Gachard], Doc. inéd., i., 249.]
[Footnote 6:] [Commines], iv., ch. vi.]
[Footnote 7:] [Commines], iv., ch. viii.: Comines-Lenglet, ii., 217.]