ce?

[Footnote 1321: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 12, 13. _Chronique de la
Pucelle_, p. 300. Perceval de Cagny, p. 170. Jean Chartier,
_Chronique_, p. 87. Morosini, vol. iii, p. 63, note 2.]

[Footnote 1322: Wallon, _Jeanne d'Arc_, 1875, vol. i, p. 213.]

[Footnote 1323: Rymer, _Foedera_, 18 June, 1429. Morosini, vol. iii,
pp. 132-133; vol. iv, supplement, xvii. G. Lefevre-Pontalis, _La
panique anglaise en mai 1429_, Paris, 1894, in 8vo.]

[Footnote 1324: G. Lefevre-Pontalis, _La guerre des partisans dans la
Haute Normandie_ (1424-1429), in the _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des
Chartes_ since 1893.]

[Footnote 1325: "The King had no great sums of money with which to pay
his army." Perceval de Cagny, pp. 149, 157.]

And these freebooters, who were willing to stretch out a hand to the
French, were not very attractive. It was well known that brigands they
were, and brigands would remain, and that Normandy once reconquered,
they would have to be got rid of, to the last man, without honour and
without profit. In which case would it not be better to leave them to
be dealt with by the _Godons_?

Other nobles clamoured for an expedition into Champagne.[1326] And in
spite of all that has been said to the contrary, the Maid's visions
had no influence whatever on this determination. The King's
Councillors led Jeanne and were far from being led by her. Once
before they had diverted her from the road to Reims by providing her
with work on the Loire. Once again they might divert her into
Normandy, without her even perceiving it, so ignorant was she of the
roads and of the lie of the land. If there were certain who
recommended a campaign in Champagne, it was not on the faith of saints
and angels, but for purely human reasons. Is it possible to discover
these reasons? There were doubtless certain lords and captains who
considered the interest of the King and the kingdom, but every one
found it so difficult not to confound it with his own interest, that
the best way to discover who was responsible for the march on Reims is
to find out who was to profit by it. It was certainly not the Duke of
Alencon, who would have greatly preferred to take advantage of the
Maid's help for the conquest of his own duchy.[1327] Neither was it my
Lord the Bastard, nor the Sire de Gaucourt, nor the King himself, for
they must have desired the securing of Berry and the Orleanais by the
capture of La Charite held by the terrible Perrinet Gressart.[1328] On
the