. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. Lc^iuis, DiKE OK Orlkan>. THE WAY OF CONVENTION 269 This was publicly explained by his ambassadors in theCathedral of Siena on the 24th November in the presence ofPope Gregory and his twelve cardinals, in the presence also ofthe English and French ambassadors and of a large crowdof listeners.^ But before Benedict set sail from Savona atremendous catastrophe befell him. On the 23rd November 1407 Louis, Duke of Orleans, wasfoully assassinated by the order of Jean sans Peur,
. In the days of the councils a sketch of the life and times of Baldassare Cossa [afterward Pope John the Twenty-third]. Lc^iuis, DiKE OK Orlkan>. THE WAY OF CONVENTION 269 This was publicly explained by his ambassadors in theCathedral of Siena on the 24th November in the presence ofPope Gregory and his twelve cardinals, in the presence also ofthe English and French ambassadors and of a large crowdof listeners.^ But before Benedict set sail from Savona atremendous catastrophe befell him. On the 23rd November 1407 Louis, Duke of Orleans, wasfoully assassinated by the order of Jean sans Peur, Duke ofBurgundv. The Duke of Orleans, born on the 13th March1372, was the younger and well-loved brother of King Charlesthe Sixth, He was handsome, devout, learned, and witty; hecould hold his own with the doctors of the University as wellas with the princes in council; he was extravagant in expendi-ture, unscrupulous as to means, passionately fond of pleasure,luxury, and pomp, royal in his liberality to princes or toCelestins.^ When only fifteen years of age he had marriedValentine, a year his senior, the beautif
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