quites de Compiegne_, vol. v, p. 95. A. Sorel, _La
prise de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 145, note 3.]

[Footnote 1991: Choisy surrendered on the 16th of May. _Chronique des
cordeliers_, fol. 497, verso. _Livre des trahisons_, p. 201.
Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 382. Berry, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 49. A.
Sorel, _La prise de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp. 145, 146. P. Champion,
_Guillaume de Flavy_, pp. 40-41, 162-163.]

The army marched towards Soissons in order to cross the Aisne.[1992]
The captain of the town was a squire of Picardy, called by the French
Guichard Bournel, by the Burgundians Guichard de Thiembronne; he had
served on both sides. Jeanne knew him well; he reminded her of a
painful incident. He had been one of those, who finding her wounded in
the trenches before Paris, had insisted on putting her on her horse
against her will. On the approach of King Charles's barons and
men-at-arms, Captain Guichard made the folk of Soissons believe that
the whole army was coming to encamp in their town. Wherefore they
resolved not to receive them. Then happened what had already befallen
at Senlis: Captain Bournel received the Lord Archbishop of Reims, the
Count of Vendome and the Maid, with a small company, and the rest of
the army abode that night outside the walls.[1993] On the morrow,
failing to obtain command of the bridge, they endeavoured to ford the
river, but without success; for it was spring and the waters were
high. The army had to turn back. When it was gone, Captain Bournel
sold to the Duke of Burgundy the city he was charged to hold for the
King of France; and he delivered it into the hand of Messire Jean de
Luxembourg for four thousand golden _saluts_.[1994]

[Footnote 1992: Berry, in _Trial_, vol. iv, pp. 49, 50.]

[Footnote 1993: F. Brun, _Jeanne d'Arc et le capitaine de Soissons en
1430_, Soissons, 1904, p. 5 (extract from _l'Argus Soissonnais_). P.
Champion, _loc. cit._, p. 41.]

[Footnote 1994: Berry, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 50. P. Champion, _loc.
cit._, p. 168. Proofs and illustrations, xxxv, p. 168. F. Brun,
_Nouvelles recherches sur le fait de Soissons (Jeanne d'Arc et Bournel
en 1430) a propos d'un livre recent_, Meulan, 1907, in 8vo.]

At the tidings of this treacherous and dishonourable action on the
part of the Captain of Soissons, Jeanne cried out that if she had him,
she would cut his body into four pieces, which was no empty imagining
of her wrath. As the penalty of certain crimes it was the custom for
the exe