"Kings die, reigns vanish but virtue alone and meritorious works
serve man on his bier and gain him eternal glory. O you Frenchmen,
see the cause and the end in my labours!"

The guest who had displayed so much humility and thankfulness when he
arrived, who had deprecated honours to his high birth and desired to
offer all the courtesies, departed from the residence so generously
given him for five years in a very cavalier manner.

"Now the king left the duke's territories without having taken
leave nor said adieu to the Countess of Charolais,[20] although he
was in her neighbourhood, and he left behind him the queen, his
wife. The said queen had neither hackneys nor vehicles with which
to follow her husband. Therefore, the king ordered her to borrow
the hackneys of the countess and chariots, too. Heartily did the
countess accede to this request in spite of the fact that the
thing seemed to her rather strange that a noble king, and one who
had received so much honour and service from the House of Burgundy
and had promised to recognise it when the hour came, should thus
depart thence without saying a word. However, in spite of all, the
countess would gladly have given the queen the hackneys as a gift
if they had been asked, and she sent them to her by one of her
equerries named Corneille de la Barre, together with chariots and
waggons. And thus the queen left the country just as her husband
had done without saying a word either to the duke or the countess,
and Corneille went with her on foot to bring back the hackneys
when the queen had arrived at the place of her desire."

Philip had difficulty in persuading his quondam guest to show outward
respect to his father's memory. The duke clad himself and his suite
in deep mourning before setting out to join Louis at Avesnes, whither
representatives from the University of Paris and from all parts of the
realm had flocked to greet their new sovereign.

It was a great concourse that marched from Avesnes as escort to the
uncrowned king. Philip was magnificent in his appointments as he
entered Rheims, and behind him came his son,

"the Count of Charolais who, equally with his noble company of
knights and squires, attracted hearts and eyes in admiration of
his rich array wherein cloth of gold and jewelry, velvet and
embroidery were lavishly displayed. And the count had ten pages