[Footnote 2080: _Chronique des cordeliers_, fol. 507, recto. Morosini,
vol. iii, pp. 301-303. _Chronique de Tournai_, ed. Smedt, in _Recueil
des Chroniques de Flandre_, vol. iii, pp. 416, 417.]

Meanwhile the Lenten sermons at Orleans had been delivered by that
good preacher, Friar Richard, who was ill content with Jeanne, and
whom Jeanne disliked and had quitted. The townsfolk as a token of
regard presented him with the image of Jesus sculptured in copper by a
certain Philippe, a metal-worker of the city. And the bookseller, Jean
Moreau, bound him a book of hours at the town's expense.[2081]

[Footnote 2081: Lottin, _Recherches sur la ville d'Orleans_, vol. i, p.
252. _Trial_, vol. i, p. 99, note 1. _Journal du siege_, pp. 235-238.
S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p. cclxiii, note 2.]

He brought back Queen Marie to Jargeau and succeeded in obtaining her
favour. Jeanne was spared the bitterness of learning that while she
was languishing in prison her friends at Orleans, her fair Dauphin and
his Queen Marie, were making good cheer for the monk who had turned
from her to prefer a dame Catherine whom she considered
worthless.[2082] Only lately the idea of employing Dame Catherine had
filled Jeanne with alarm; she wrote to her King about it, and as soon
as she saw him besought him not to employ her. However the King set no
store by what she had said; he agreed to Friar Richard's favourite
being allowed to set forth on her mission to obtain money from the
good towns and to negotiate peace with the Duke of Burgundy. But
perhaps this saintly dame was not possessed of all the wisdom
necessary for the performance of man's work and King's service. For
immediately she became a cause of embarrassment to her friends.

[Footnote 2082: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 296, 297.]

Being in the town of Tours, she fell to saying: "In this town there be
carpenters who work, but not at houses, and if ye have not a care,
this town is in the way to a bad end and there be those in the town
that know it."[2083]

[Footnote 2083: Register of the Accounts of the town of Tours for the
year 1430, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 473, note 1.]

This was a denunciation in the form of a parable. Dame Catherine was
thereby accusing the churchmen and burgesses of Tours of working
against Charles of Valois, their lord. The woman must have been held
to have influence with the King, his kinsmen and his Council; for the
inhabitants of Tours took fright and sent an