oncerning "the case of the
Maid." P. Champion, _Notes sur Jeanne d'Arc, II; Jeanne d'Arc a
Arras_, in _Le Moyen Age_, July-August, 1907, pp. 200, 201.]

Neither the capture of the Maid nor the retreat of the men-at-arms she
had brought, put an end to the siege of Compiegne. Guillaume de Flavy
and his two brothers, Charles and Louis, and Captain Baretta with his
Italians, and the five hundred of the garrison[2104] displayed skill,
vigour, and untiring energy. The Burgundians conducted the siege in
the same manner as the English had conducted that of Orleans; mines,
trenches, bulwarks, cannonades and bastions, those gigantic and absurd
erections good for nothing but for burning. The suburbs of the town
Guillaume de Flavy had demolished because they were in the way of his
firing; boats he had sunk in order to bar the river. To the mortars
and huge _couillards_ of the Burgundians he replied with his
artillery, and notably with those little copper culverins which did
such good service.[2105] If the gay cannoneer of Orleans and Jargeau,
Maitre Jean de Montesclere, were absent, there was a shoemaker of
Valenciennes, an artilleryman, named Noirouffle, tall, dark, terrible
to see, and terrible to hear.[2106] The townsfolk of Compiegne, like
those of Orleans, made unsuccessful sallies. One day Louis de Flavy,
the governor's brother, was killed by a Burgundian bullet. But none
the less on that day Guillaume did as he was wont to do and made the
minstrels play to keep his men-at-arms in good cheer.[2107]

[Footnote 2104: H. de Lepinois, _Notes extraites des archives
communales de Compiegne_, in _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_,
1863, vol. xxiv, p. 486. A. Sorel, _Prise de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 268. P.
Champion, _Guillaume de Flavy_, pp. 38, 48 _et seq._]

[Footnote 2105: _Chronique des cordeliers_, fol. 500 verso.]

[Footnote 2106: Chastellain, vol. ii, p. 53.]

[Footnote 2107: Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 390.]

In the month of June the bulwark, defending the bridge over the Oise,
like les Tourelles at Orleans which defended the bridge over the
Loire, was captured by the enemy without bringing about the reduction
of the town. In like manner, the capture of Les Tourelles had not
occasioned the fall of the town of Duke Charles.[2108]

[Footnote 2108: Monstrelet, vol. iv, pp. 390, 391. Lefevre de
Saint-Remy, vol. ii, p. 180. Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 306, 307.
Chastellain, vol. ii, pp. 51, 54. A. Sorel, _La prise de Jeanne
d'Arc_,