of gold: "_Ores, vienne la Belle!_"[1653] By these words
the men-at-arms wished to proclaim that if they were to meet the Maid
of the Armagnacs she would find her work cut out.

[Footnote 1651: Flammermont, _Histoire de Senlis pendant la seconds
partie de la guerre de cent ans_ (1405-1441), in _Memoires de la
Societe de l'Histoire de Paris_.]

[Footnote 1652: Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, pp. 101, 102.
_Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 328. _Journal du siege_, p. 118.
Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 453. Morosini, vol. iii, pp.
188, 189; vol. iv, appendix xvii. Rymer, _Foedera_, July, 1429.
Raynaldi, _Annales ecclesiastici_, pp. 77, 88. S. Bougenot, _Notices
et extraits de manuscrits interessant l'histoire de France conserves a
la Bibliotheque imperial de Vienne_, p. 62.]

[Footnote 1653: Now, come forth Beauty (W.S.). _Le Livre des trahisons
de France_, ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove, in _La collection des chroniques
belges_, 1873, p. 198.]

Captain Jean de Saintrailles, the Brother of Poton, observed the
English first when, marching towards Senlis, they were crossing La
Nonnette by a ford so narrow that two horses could barely pass
abreast. But King Charles's army, which was coming down the Nonnette
valley, did not arrive in time to surprise them.[1654] It passed the
night opposite them, near Montepilloy.

[Footnote 1654: Perceval de Cagny, p. 162. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_,
vol. i, p. 102. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 329. _Journal du siege_,
pp. 119, 120.]

On the morrow, Monday, the 15th of August, at daybreak, the
men-at-arms heard mass in camp and, as far as might be, cleared their
consciences; for great plunderers and whoremongers as they were, they
had not given up hope of winning Paradise when this life should be
over. That day was a solemn feast, when the Church, on the authority
of St. Gregoire de Tours, commemorates the physical and spiritual
exaltation to heaven of the Virgin Mary. Churchmen taught that it
behoves men to keep the feasts of Our Lord and the Holy Virgin, and
that to wage battle on days consecrated to them is to sin grievously
against the glorious Mother of God. No one in King Charles's camp
could maintain a contrary opinion, since all were Christians as they
were in the camp of the Regent. And yet, immediately after the _Deo
Gratias_, every man took up his post ready for battle.[1655]

[Footnote 1655: Perceval de Cagny, p. 161.]

According to the established rule, the army was