Ill to the emperor. When they had received their inftructions and made their preparations, they took leave of the king and his uncles, and rode for Chalons in Champagne, with an attendance fuitable to their rank, and the purpofe they were going on. They met the lord de Coucy at Chalons, retaining knights and men at arms from, Bar, Lorraine and Champagne for this expedition, of which he was to command, the van-guard. He entertained the ambaffadors one day fplen-didly at dinner, and on the morrow they conti-nued the road to Sainte Menehould, and thence towards Luxembourg, to gain intelligence where the emperor was. CHAP. XXXIV. THE ICING OF FRANCE AND HIS COUNCIL PERMIT THE DUKE OF BRITTANY TO RETURN HOME.— THE STATES OF BRABANT SEND ^EXCUSES TO THE RING OF FRANCE, FOR NOT ALLOWING HIS ARMY TO PASS THROUGH THEIR COUNTRY.— THE SUCCESS OF THE AMBASSADORS WITH THE EMPEROR. ALTHOUGH ambaffadors had been fent to the emperor, the French did, no way relax in their warlike preparations. It was fignified to all to affemble in readinefs for the field in or near the country of Champagne by the middle of the enfuing Auguft; fince the king had then deter-mined