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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6), volume 2

Note 72 — BOOK VII[1]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Louis XI., King of France (1423-1479), who had incited the town of Liège to revolt, was enticed to Péronne by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, on the pretext of a conference, held as a prisoner, and released only on condition that he accompanied the Duke to the siege of the insurgent city.—T.

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