Duke John hesitated, from irresolution even more than from distrust.  It was a serious matter for him to commit himself more and more, by his own proper motion, against the King of England and his old allies amongst the populace of Paris.  Why should he be required to go in person to seek the dauphin?  It was far simpler, he said, for Charles to come to the king his father.  Tanneguy Duchatel went to Troyes to tell the duke that the dauphin had come to meet him as far as Montereau, and, with the help of the lady of Giae, persuaded on his side, to Bray-sur-Seine, two leagues from Montereau.  When the two princes had drawn thus near, their agents proposed that the interview should take place on the very bridge of Montereau, with the precautions and according to the forms decided on.  In the duke’s household many of his most devoted servants were opposed to this interview; the place, they said, had been chosen by and would be under the ordering of the dauphin’s people, of the old servants of the Duke of Orleans and the Count of Armagnac.  At the same time four successive messages came from Paris urging the duke to make the plunge; and at last he took his resolution.  “It is my duty,” said he, “to risk my person in order to get at so great a blessing as peace.  Whatever happens, my wish is peace.  If they kill me, I shall die a martyr.  Peace being made, I will take the men of my lord the dauphin to go and fight the English.  He has some good men of war and some sagacious captains.  Tanneguy and Barbazan are valiant knights.  Then we shall see which is the better man, Jack (Hannotin) of Flanders or Henry of Lancaster.”  He set out for Bray on the 10th of September, 1419, and arrived about two o’clock before Montereau.  Tanneguy Duchatel came and met him there.  “Well,” said the duke, “on your assurance we are come to see my lord the dauphin, supposing that he is quite willing to keep the peace between himself and us, as we also will keep it, all ready to serve him according to his wishes.”  “My most dread lord,” answered Tanneguy, “have ye no fear; my lord is well pleased with you, and desires henceforth to govern himself according to your counsels.  You have about him good friends who serve you well.”  It was agreed that the dauphin and the duke should, each from his own side, go upon the bridge of Montereau, each with ten men-at-arms, of whom they should previously forward a list.  The dauphin’s people had caused to be constructed at the two ends of the bridge strong barriers closed by a gate; about the centre of the bridge was a sort of lodge made of planks, the entrance to which was, on either side, through a pretty narrow passage; within the lodge there was no barrier in the middle to separate the two parties.  Whilst Duke John and his confidants, in concert with the dauphin’s people, were regulating these material arrangements, a chamber-attendant ran in quite scared, shouting out, “My lord, look