A popular history of France : from the earliest times . grievously hurt, sent to the king his sword ofconstable, adding that he was about to withdraw to the courtof Castile, to Henry of Transtamare, who would show moreappreciation of his services. All Charles wisdom did notpreserve him from one of those deeds of haughty levity whichthe handling of sovereign power sometimes causes even thewisest kings to commit, but reflection made him promptly ac-knowledge and retrieve his fault. He charged the Dukes ofAnjou and Bourbon to go and, for his sake, conjure Du Gues-clin to remain his constable;
A popular history of France : from the earliest times . grievously hurt, sent to the king his sword ofconstable, adding that he was about to withdraw to the courtof Castile, to Henry of Transtamare, who would show moreappreciation of his services. All Charles wisdom did notpreserve him from one of those deeds of haughty levity whichthe handling of sovereign power sometimes causes even thewisest kings to commit, but reflection made him promptly ac-knowledge and retrieve his fault. He charged the Dukes ofAnjou and Bourbon to go and, for his sake, conjure Du Gues-clin to remain his constable; and, though some chroniclersdeclare that Du Guesclin refused, his will, dated the 9th ofJuly, 1380, leads to a contrary belief, for in it he assumes thetitle of constable of France, and this will preceded the herosdeath only by four days. Having fallen sick before Chateau-neuf-Randon, a place he was besieging in the Gevaudan, DuGuesclin expired on the 13th of July, 1380, at sixty-six yearsof age, and his last words were an exhortation to the veteran. PUTTING THE KEYS ON DU GUESCLINS BIER. — Page 407. Chap. XXIL] THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR. 407 captains around him never to forget that, in whatsoevercountry they might be making war, churchmen, women,children, and the poor people were not their to certain contemporary chronicles, or, one mightalmost say, legends, Chateauneuf-Randon was to be given upthe day after Du Guesclin died. The marshal De Sancerre,who commanded the kings army, summoned the governor tosurrender the place to him ; but the governor replied that hehad given his word to Du Guesclin, and would surrender to noother. He was told of the constables death: Very well,he rejoined, I will carry the keys of the town to his this the marshal agreed; the governor marched out ofthe place at the head of his garrison, passed through the be-sieging army, went and knelt down before Du Guesclinscorpse, and actually laid the keys of Chateauneuf-Randon onhis
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