Du Lau, he had been imprisoned at Usson

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L 19. au plus vite, '* as quickly as possible."

1. 15. qui sentait le pont de Montereau, "one that smacked of the bridge of Montereau." On the bridge of Montereau, John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, had been treacherously murdered during an interview by the partisans of the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VIL, in the year 1419.

1. 31. ce serait pour en rire à jamais, **it would be etemally ridiculous." En hère refers to the Duke's scruples.

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L 3. un cul de hasse-fosse, "a dungeon." The basse-fosse, "low ditch," was the name for a subterranean dungeon, and the cul de basse fosse would be the end of such a prison.

1. 9. la Toison, the Order of the Golden Fleece, established by Philip the Good, and much prized by the Dukes of Buigundy.