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Guillaume de Bruc’s confession, recorded before the Châtelet in Paris in September 1389, reveals, like all prisoners’ confessions preserved in the criminal record for their edifying characteristics, an unusual portrait of a gentleman. De Bruc, the youngest in a noble Breton family, joined the military at a very young age, but followed the king’s enemies in the war of succession in Brittany, after leaving Du Guesclin’s forces. Although Guillaume de Bruc admitted to having participated in several pillages at the side of Captain Teste-Noire, he also confessed to considerable pilferage and theft committed on his travels. Notwithstanding the impressive list of his misdeeds, it was as a traitor to the king that he was executed.