compère, **gossip

1. 29. Comte de Charolais, the title of the eldest son of the Duke of Burgundy — ^afterwards Charles the Bold.

1. 31. des places de la Somme, The fortresses on the Somme had been ceded by Charles VII. to Burgundy at the Treaty of Arras, 1435, but could be redeemed.

Il6 LOUIS XI ET CHARLES LE TÉMÉRAIRE.

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1. I. Péronne was ceded with the Somme towns, but absolutely.

1. 5. oin la France faillit périr, "in which France almost perished.*'