This led to a misunderstanding after the Battle of Nancy, when the Duke of Lorraine removed the Schwenkel from the Zürich flag, stating that with the present victory, Zürich had "erased its shame".
Among his mamy works are the Neofiti nelle Catacombe; Surprise by the Pretorian Guards; The body of Carlo il Temerario (Charles the Bold) found after the Battle of Nancy; The conspirators await Henry I, Duke of Guise; I Borbonici nel monastero delle monache Carmelitane in Catania; Le carezze al nonno; Il Consiglio dei tre; Maria Fallero, as well as a number of portraits.
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Busnois was at the siege of Neuss in Germany in 1475, and survived (or missed) the disastrous Battle of Nancy in 1477 at which Charles was killed and Burgundian expansion was ended forthwith and forever.
Deeply disappointed, he entered into the disastrous Burgundian Wars and was killed in the Battle of Nancy.
The play is set in Dijon in Burgundy in the later part of the fifteenth century, in the aftermath of the battles of Grandson, Morat (both 1476) and Nancy (1477), all mentioned in Act I, scene ii.