Note 590 — BOOK THE FIFTH. (continued 2)
Reading edition
This is a mistake. At the end of May, 1483, three months before the death of Louis XI., the Governor of the Bastille, in obedience to the king’s orders, sent the prisoners home, after having required them to swear that they would do nothing to the prejudice of his majesty. Gachard’s Analectes Belgiques, i. 472.