The battle of Granson was a new defeat for the knighthood: the Swiss ones were massed in a tightened place, between the lake of Neufchâtel and the mountain; to attack was to run to an unquestionable defeat: but Charles the Bold one, who called contemptuously them cowherds, could not think that peasants could fight against the noble ones, and it was thrown madly on them with its cavalry.

Swiss, tight the ones against the others and armed with long pikes, opposed an insuperable rampart to him, while helps arrived to them of the mountain; taken between two enemies, the Burgundian ones fled in disorder, giving up all their luggage and all their artillery.

Small poor people, ignored hitherto, without horses and weapons, had overcome the powerful duke of Occident (1476).

Charles the Bold one, taken between the walls of Nancy and a strong army of help, tried a desperate attack; pushed back with great losses, it refused to flee: _ "If it it need, I fight only," say it, and it himself throw with a handle of man on the army which him bar the road; in one moment, the Burgundian ones were killed or taken; Charles was with the number of deaths, and one recognized his corpse afterwards only two days.

The duke of Nemours did not deserve any pity, but the cruelty of Louis XI was odious: it ordered itself to the judges to torture it "quite narrow", to tear off great cries to him; then it made it decapitate.

The duke of Alençon had taken part in all the conspiracies.

Louis XI made him grace several times, but it ends up being wearied, and the duke was locked up in an iron cage, whose king had given the drawing.

Louis XI was not chivalrous, but he liked to reward heroism.

After the seat of Quesnoy, it made come a young knight of which it had noticed bravery, and passed to him to the neck a gold chain.

Louis XI was with his castle of Plessis-the-Turns when it learned death from his enemy; it manda at once all large lords of the surroundings, to make them share itself of the news: much of them had conspired formerly with the duke of Burgundy, and had preferred to learn death from the king, but all affected to be delighted, and Louis XI, who knew their truths feelings, had fun this comedy.