o, 20 pages.]

[Footnote 1682: French _attournes_, cf. La Curne, _attournes_, Godefroi,
_atornes_, magistrates at Compiegne, elected on St. John the Baptist's
Day for three years (W.S.). _Proces_, vol. v, p. 174.]

[Footnote 1683: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 331. Jean Chartier,
_Chronique_, vol. i, p. 106. A. Sorel, _La prise de Jeanne d'Arc
devant Compiegne_, Paris, 1889, in 8vo, pp. 117, 118. Duc de la
Tremoille, _Les La Tremoille pendant cinq siecles_, Nantes, 1890, in
4to, vol. i, pp. 185, 212. P. Champion, _Guillaume de Flavy, capitaine
de Compiegne_, Paris, 1906, in 8vo, proofs and illustrations, vol.
xiii, p. 137.]

One by one, the King was recovering his good towns. He charged the
folk of Beauvais to acknowledge him as their lord. When they saw the
flowers-de-luce borne by the heralds, the citizens cried: "Long live
Charles of France!" The clergy chanted a _Te Deum_ and there was great
rejoicing. Those who refused fealty to King Charles were put out of
the town with permission to take away their possessions.[1684] The
Bishop and Vidame of Beauvais, Messire Pierre Cauchon, who was Grand
Almoner of France to King Henry, and a negotiator of important
ecclesiastical business, grieved to see his city returning to the
French;[1685] it was to the city's hurt, but he could not help it. He
failed not to realise that part of this disgrace he owed to the Maid
of the Armagnacs, who was influential with her party and had the
reputation of being all powerful. As he was a good theologian he must
have suspected that the devil was leading her and he wished her all
possible harm.

[Footnote 1684: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 327. _Journal du siege_,
p. 118. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 106. Monstrelet, vol.
iv, pp. 353, 354. Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 214, 215.]

[Footnote 1685: A. Sarrazin, _Pierre Cauchon, juge de Jeanne d'Arc_,
Paris, 1901, in 8vo, pp. 49 _et seq._]

At this time Artois, Picardy, all the Burgundian territory in the
north, was slipping away from Burgundy. Had King Charles gone there
the majority of the dwellers in the strong towers and castles of
Picardy would have received him as their sovereign.[1686] But meanwhile
his enemies would have recaptured what he had just won in Valois and
the Ile de France.

[Footnote 1686: Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 354.]

Having entered Compiegne with the King, Jeanne lodged at the Hotel du
Boeuf, the house of the King's proctor. She slept with the proctor's
wif