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Both retired and gained their apartments under the guidance of the captain of the Bastille. Coppenole said to Guillaume Rym,-"Hum! I have had enough of that coughing king! I have seen Charles of Burgundy drunk, and he was less malignant than Louis XI. when ailing."

"Master Jacques," replied Rym, "'tis because wine renders kings less cruel than does barley water."