In René d’Anjou's Livre d’amours du coeur espris (The Book of the Love-Smitten Heart) (1457) the dream vision's protagonist finds himself at a cemetery of famous lovers. At its entrance is a hall hung with the shields and coats of arms of historical and fictional figures such as Julius Caesar, Aeneas, Lancelot, etc., and prominent French aristocracy, such as Jean de Berry (1340–1416), Gaston IV de Foix (1422–1472), and others. The verses painted on the shield of Charles d’Orléans recount the following about the imprisoned poet:

According to these verses, Charles's acquisition of English in captivity led to an acquaintance with a lady, as a result of which he fell in love and composed highly lauded poetry. Although René does not specify that the poetry itself was composed in English, the causal construction of the clause implies that learning English was the ultimate point of origin for Charles's literary endeavours: had he not learned English, he would not have met the lady, and had he not met the lady, he would not have entered Love's service and composed beautiful poetry. In monumentalising Charles through his bilingualism, René – Charles's contemporary, friend, and a fellow poet himself – seems to posit Charles's English as central not just to the duke's biography, but to his enduring literary legacy.

Despite René's emphasis on Charles's English, the duke remains far more studied for his French, rather than for his English compositions. This is due in no small part to a long-standing conviction, finally put to rest, that Fortunes Stabilnes had to be an inferior anonymous translation of his French poetry.