Charles was not present at this entry, which took place on Saturday, December 11th, but Philip was so much entertained with the performance that he sent for his son, and on the following Saturday he and the Countess of Charolais came from Ghent to join the party.  The Duke of Orleans and many nobles rode out of the city to meet the young couple, who were formally escorted to the palace by magistrates and citizens in a body.  On the Sunday there were repetitions of some of the plays and every attention was offered by the Bruges burghers to their young guests.  When Orleans departed with his bride on Tuesday, December 14th, what wonder that the lady wept in sorrow at leaving these gay Burgundian doings!

While Charles did not actually witness the humiliation of the citizens, the seven-year-old boy would, undoubtedly, have heard and known sufficient of the cause of the festivals to be fully aware that the citizens who had dared defy his father were glad to buy back his smiles at any cost to their pride and purse.  He would have known, too, that merchants from Venice, Genoa, Florence, and elsewhere joined the Bruges burghers in the welcome to the mollified overlord.  It was a spectacle of the relations between a city and the ducal father not to be easily forgotten by the son.

[Footnote 1:  The indefatigable Gachard has published an itinerary of Philip the Good, so far as he could make it. (Collection des voyages des souverains des Pays Bas, i., 71.) Unfortunately, owing to the destruction of papers, only a few years are complete.  Between 1428-1441, there is nothing.  But the itinerary for 1441 and for other years shows how often the duke changed his residences.  Sometimes he is accompanied by Madame de Bourgogne, sometimes by M. and Madame de Charolais.]

[Footnote 2:  It was also said that the woollen manufactures of Flanders were denoted by the emblem of the golden fleece.]

[Footnote 3:  Reiffenberg, Histoire de l’Ordre de la Toison d’Or, p. xxi.]

[Footnote 4:  _ Hist. de I’Ordre,_ etc., p. i.]

[Footnote 5:  All the Burgundian embassies were not as patent to the public as were Isabella’s.  An item like the following from the accounts of 1448-49 whets the reader’s curiosity: 

“To Jehan Lanternier, barber and varlet of the chamber, for delivering to a certain person for certain causes and for secret matters of which Monseigneur does not wish further declaration to be made, 53 pounds 17 sous.”

(Laborde Les Ducs de Bourgogne, etc., “Preuves,” i. xiii.)]

[Footnote 6:  “Vingt-quatre chevaliers gentilshommes de nom et d’armes et sans reproches nes et procrees en leal mariage” (see description of the first list).—­Hist. de l’Ordre, p. xxi.]

[Footnote 7:  Jacquemin Dauxonne, a merchant of Lombardy living at Dijon, received twenty-two francs and a half for a rich cloth of black silk draped about the baptismal font.  Why mourning was used on this joyful occasion does not appear. (Laborde, i., 321.)]