Conseil du Royaume

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Duc Alain proceeds into the great chamber, his great poodle Medoc is now a brilliant baby blue hue and its hair is cut in such a way as to accentuate its head and tail.

His fitted chain mail armour is covered in a vest of black and white with red piping. At his side sits a long sword of fine quality.

Bowing with a fluid grace towards the King, the Prince and finally the assembled nobles he places his plumed helm on the Bretagne bench before walking some ways into the chambers centre.

"My Lords, Dukes of ze Realm, My Prince, Your Royal Highness.

It seems obvious zat reuniting ze kingdom from Norman 'ands should be our first priority. ‘owever I will defer to King Philippe that at ze present time we will build our strength and deal with those provinces controlled by bandits and rebels.

'owever for ze record and in my opinion, Caen and Bordeaux must be liberated as soon as possible.

I know I speak from a subjective point of view given the position of Bretagne, but I hope all nobles 'ere can see ze sense of it.

In addition, I agree wiz ze King and ze Duc de Champagne, ze only way to do zis is by building enough strength to attack quickly and decisively, lest we incur the rather of our most holy Pope. Patience is needed in ze first instance unless our enemies present a target of opportunity.

I would petition ze King and Prince now to let Bretagne take both Caen and Bordeaux if and when we decide to unite ze realm. This is merely because ze Duchy 'as no natural ability to expand once zis is completed.

And of course I will greatly treasure ze Black Stallion zat you have gifted me from ze royal stables your majesty. I 'ave yet to name 'im but it will be appropriate I can assure you."