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    Default Re: Conseil du Royaume

    Prince Louis bows to the King before speaking,

    My King the men and I will depart the immediate environs of Bordeaux as soon as we are able (OOC: I think the army has exhausted it's movement). I will also make public my intent to allow my vassal, Gontran de Linars, to handle the capture of Bordeaux when war is finally declared.

    As I have stated, I do not intend to join the Crusade unless my father asks that I do so. Nor, to my knowledge, do any of the men of my House intend to join.

    Duke de Rohan I take your meaning very well, and our deal still stands, as does my vow to ride to your aid if you call.

    I find no humor in your statements Duke de Champagne. I suggest the next time you propose a punishment for your Prince, legal, personal, or otherwise, that you be prepared to carry it out yourself.

    Mark my words, this delay will cost lives rather than save them. Those lives belong to the King and, for my House's part, are grateful for the chance to be utterly obediant to his will, but it disappoints me to have them sacrificed on the absurd altar of legal wrangling and politics. France's nobility are not the men I had thought they were, had hoped they were. We dance our wars on the head of a pin when victory could be had more cheaply by a single clean charge. I pray that God favors our course, for his wisdom is far greater than my own, but I cannot find the sense in it.

    I count myself very fortunate to have King Phillipe the Lion to lead our people. We live in glorious times Frenchmen! The realm of the Franks will be restored, and you may all live to see it! Pray your thanks to God, plant a seed in your wives, sharpen your swords, and saddle your horses for war is coming!

    At last.

    With that last pronouncement Louis departs the Council chamber shaking his head.


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