The Duke and the Swiss

Louis offered generous terms of peace, amounting to a large annual pension paid directly to the king and his court. The duke's spies at the french court reported that louis had opened up secret negotiations with edward. Charles happily approved the truce. Louis had been their friend, and now, at the moment of imminent peril, he had abandoned them. But the swiss were used to fighting on their own. They would simply have to mobilize every man available. A reserved swiss force hidden in the woods on the burgundian right suddenly emerged and attacked. The battle ended in a slaughter, from which the duke, however, escaped.