de-Bray,
Combleux and Checy may be seen rising one beyond the other between the
river and the Roman road from Autun to Paris. On the north of the city
were fine monasteries and beautiful churches, the chapel of
Saint-Ladre, in the cemetery; the Jacobins, the Cordeliers, the church
of Saint-Pierre-Ensentelee. Directly north, the _faubourg_ of La Porte
Bernier lay along the Paris road, and close by there stretched the
sombre city of the wolves, the deep forest of oaks, horn-beams,
beeches, and willows, wherein were hidden, like wood-cutters and
charcoal-burners, the villages of Fleury and Samoy.[486]

[Footnote 485: _Journal du siege_, pp. 13, 15. _Chronique de la
Pucelle_, p. 270. Hubert, _Antiquites historiques de l'eglise royale
d'Orleans_, Orleans, 1661, in 8vo. Le Maire, _Antiquites_, p. 284.
Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, pp. 133, 205, 277, _passim_.
Jollois, _Histoire du siege_, p. 21. H. Baraude, _Le siege d'Orleans
et Jeanne d'Arc_, Paris, 1906, pp. 10 _et seq._]

[Footnote 486: Le Maire, _Antiquites_, p. 43.]

Towards the west the _faubourg_ of La Porte Renard stretched out into
the fields along the road to Chateaudun, and the hamlet of
Saint-Laurent along the road to Blois.[487]

[Footnote 487: Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, p. 296. Boucher de
Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc, le ravitaillement
d'Orleans, nouveaux documents_, Orleans, 1874, in large 8vo, with
topographical plan: _Orleans, la Loire et ses iles en 1429_.]

These _faubourgs_ were so populous and so extensive that when, on the
approach of the English, the people from the suburbs took refuge
within the city the number of its inhabitants was doubled.[488]

[Footnote 488: Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, pp. 391, 399.
Jollois, _Histoire du siege_, pp. 41, 44. P. Mantellier, _Histoire du
siege_, Orleans, 1867, in 8vo, p. 24. Lottin, _Recherches sur
Orleans_, vol. i, p. 141.]

The inhabitants of Orleans were resolved to fight, not for their
honour indeed; in those days no honour redounded to a citizen from the
defence of his own city; his only reward was the risk of terrible
danger. When the town was captured the great and wealthy had but to
pay ransom and the conqueror entertained them well; the lesser and
poorer nobility ran greater risks. In this year, 1428, the knights,
who defended Melun and surrendered after having eaten their horses and
their dogs, were drowned in the Seine. "Nobility was worth nothing,"
ran a Burgun