Louis XI, who did not smell himself rather extremely to overcome, undertook to once again bend his enemy mortal by pleasant words; he went to find Charles with Péronne as he had done in Charenton, embraced it twice, and walked to its arm as a sign of friendship good.

But suddenly the news arrives which the Inhabitants of Liège raise against the duke, and which it have at their head of the envoys of king de France: seized of rage, Charles made lock up the king in his room, and spoke to kill it or at least to throw it in prison for always.

Louis XI spent three days in the anguish, going unceasingly from the window to the door, and when it heard some noise in the staircase, it was appeared that Charles went up with torturers to kill it.

Charles the Bold one, divided between the desire to be avenged and fear to commit a ashamed crime, was in prey with such an agitation that it remained three days without sleeping, throwing himself on his bed only to be raised at once, and to walk to great steps in his room, in prey with a furious anger.

Finally it took its party and went up in the king to dictate his conditions to him: Louis XI, warned secretly by his which it was in danger of death, if it discussed the treaty, promised to the duke of Burgundy all that it wanted: he renonça with all his rights on the cities of the Sum and the Flanders, gave up Champagne, committed himself on a piece of the true cross exterminating the Inhabitants of Liège, and even had to add that he would do it with pleasure.

The order of Star, instituted by Jean the Good, had fallen little by little in disuse.

Louis XI was not a chivalrous king, but it understood that an order of knighthood of which he would be the chief would be for him a great force, and he founded the order of the Michaelmas who was to only have thirty-six knights, including twelve named by the king, and the other elected officials by the twelve first; the distinctive sign of the order was a gold collar, furnished with shells of money and a medal which represented the archangel embanking the dragon; the knights swore to defend the king until death.

The order was founded in 1469, in the Mount-Saint-Michel.

The town of Beauvais, attacked by the duke of Burgundy, did not have a royal garrison, but all its inhabitants, to the women, defended themselves heroically: a girl, Jeanne Fourquet, known as Hatchet, rejected into the ditch Burgundian assembled on the rampart; all the attackers were pushed back.

Louis XI, to decide the English with peace, made them give to the doors of Amiens a great feast which was prolonged during four days: it, had said Commines there, of large tables charged with good meats which gave desire for eating, and the best wines; nothing missed except water, that nobody claimed.

The English lords accepted money, and soon peace was signed (1475).