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===Louis' escape and return to England=== On 1 July 1363, King John was informed that Louis had broken his parole and escaped from Calais. Troubled by the dishonour of this action, and the arrears in his ransom, John gathered his royal council to announce that he would voluntarily return to captivity in England and negotiate with Edward in person.<ref>Autrand, Françoise, ''Charles V'', Fayard, Paris, 1994, p. 446.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kosto |first1=Adam J. |title=Hostages in the Middle Ages |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199651702 |page=163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbTTn3C3GtYC&pg=PA163 |access-date=11 February 2021}}</ref> When faced with the opposition of his advisors, the king famously replied that "if good faith were banned from the Earth, she ought to find asylum in the hearts of kings".<ref>Bouillet, Marie-Nicolas, ''Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie'', Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1878, p. 954.</ref> Immediately after he appointed his son [[Charles V of France|Charles]] the Duke of Normandy to be regent and governor of France until his return.<ref>Jean Froissart, ''Chronicles'', translator Geoffrey Brereton, Penguin Classics, Baltimore, 1968, p. 167.</ref>
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