An Analysis of the causes of the Wars and the course which they
took. Michael D. Miller |Chapter 29: Burgundy deserts the
alliance with England - 1435 |The meeting at Nevers -
January/February 1435 Philip had made a 6 year truce with France
in 1431 as an obvious preliminary, to those who cared to read
the signs, to a full peace treaty[page ]. He had loathed and
despised La Tremoille, and could never have done business with
somebody he regarded as a parvenu wretch. Now the 'adventurers'
were gone, and France once more had a government of high-born
and respectable people. Cautious as he was by nature, Philip now
felt the time had come to take his objective of peace with King
Charles VII a step further. A meeting was arranged at Nevers in
January 1435. It began with the air of a family gathering of
Philip himself, his sisters, and his two brothers-in-law, who
were Arthur of Brittany and Charles, Compte de Clermont who had
figured so prominently in the battle of the Herrings 1429 [page
]. Charles had recently bec