se still at Croissy.[1739] One ecclesiastic said they had caused
more Christians to suffer martyrdom than Maximian and Diocletian.[1740]

[Footnote 1737: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 180.]

[Footnote 1738: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 189.]

[Footnote 1739: _Ibid._, pp. 136, 137.]

[Footnote 1740: _Ibid._, p. 107. _Document inedit relatif a l'etat de
Paris en 1430_, in _Revue des societes savantes_, 1863, p. 203.]

And yet, in the year 1429, there might have been discovered in the
city of Paris not a few followers of the Dauphin. Christine de Pisan,
who was very loyal to the House of Valois, said: "In Paris there are
many wicked. Good are there also and faithful to their King. But they
dare not lift up their voices."[1741]

[Footnote 1741: Christine de Pisan, in _Trial_, vol. v, stanza 56, p.
20. Le Roux de Lincy and Tisserand, _Paris et ses historiens_, p.
426.]

It was common knowledge that in the Parlement and even in the Chapter
of Notre-Dame were to be found those who had dealings with the
Armagnacs.[1742]

[Footnote 1742: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 251. A. Longnon,
_Paris pendant la domination anglaise (1420-1436), documents extraits
des registres de la chancellerie de France_, Paris, 1877, in 8vo,
introduction, p. xiij. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_,
vol. ii, p. 116, note 1.]

On the morrow of their victory at Patay, those terrible Armagnacs had
only to march straight on the town to take it. They were expected to
enter it one day or the other. In the mind of the Regent it was as if
they had already taken it. He went off and shut himself in the Castle
of Vincennes with the few men who remained to him.[1743] Three days
after the discomfiture of the English there was a panic in the town.
"The Armagnacs are coming to-night," they said. Meanwhile the
Armagnacs were at Orleans awaiting orders to assemble at Gien and to
march on Auxerre. At these tidings the Duke of Bedford must have
sighed a deep sigh of relief; and straightway he set to work to
provide for the defence of Paris and the safety of Normandy.[1744]

[Footnote 1743: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 248. _Chronique
de la Pucelle_, p. 297. Morosini, vol. iii, p. 79, note.]

[Footnote 1744: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 257.
Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 453. Morosini, vol. iii, p.
198.]

When the panic was past, the heart of the great town returned to its
allegiance, not to the