Not that he was a profound politician, nor was he borrowing trouble about the possible consequences of the marriage of his cousin Marguerite de Bourgoyne to his cousin Charles, Dauphin de Vienne; nor as to how long the good understanding which had been patched up between the Duke of Austria and the King of France would last; nor how the King of England would take this disdain of his daughter. All that troubled him but little; and he gave a warm reception every evening to the wine of the royal vintage of Chaillot, without a suspicion that several flasks of that same wine (somewhat revised and corrected, it is true, by Doctor Coictier), cordially offered to Edward IV. by Louis XI., would, some fine morning, rid Louis XI. of Edward IV.
Non qu’il fût profond politique, et qu’il se fît une affaire des suites possibles du mariage de madame sa cousine Marguerite de Bourgogne avec monsieur son cousin Charles, dauphin de Vienne ; combien durerait la bonne intelligence plâtrée du duc d’Autriche et du roi de France, comment le roi d’Angleterre prendrait ce dédain de sa fille, cela l’inquiétait peu, et il fêtait chaque soir le vin du cru royal de Chaillot, sans se douter que quelques flacons de ce même vin (un peu revu et corrigé, il est vrai, par le médecin Coictier), cordialement offerts à Édouard IV par Louis XI, débarrasseraient un beau matin Louis XI d’Édouard IV.