hateaux_ and fortresses. Most of the
fields lay fallow. In many places fairs and markets had been
suspended. Labourers were everywhere out of work. War, after having
ruined all trades, was now the only trade. Says Eustache Deschamps,
"All men will become squires. Scarce any artisans are left."[1342] At
the place of meeting there assembled thirty thousand men, of whom many
were on foot and many came from the villages, giving their services in
return for food. There were likewise monks, valets, women and other
camp-followers. And all this multitude was an hungered. The King went
to Gien and summoned the Queen who was at Bourges.[1343]

[Footnote 1340: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 312. Jean Chartier,
_Chronique_, pp. 93-94. _Journal du siege_, p. 108. Cagny, p. 157.
Morosini, pp. 84-85. Loiseleur, _Compte des depenses_, pp. 90, 91.]

[Footnote 1341: "_Gens de guerre et de commun_," says Perceval de
Cagny, p. 157.]

[Footnote 1342: Eustache Deschamps ed. Queux de Saint-Hilaire and G.
Raynaud, vol. i, p. 159, _passim_. Th. Basin, _Histoire de Charles VII
et de Louis XI_, vol. i, p. 44. Letter from Nicholas de Clamanges to
Gerson, LIV.]

[Footnote 1343: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 308. Perceval de Cagny,
p. 157. _Journal du siege_, p. 180. Morosini, vol. iii, p. 85.]

His idea was to take her to Reims and have her crowned with him,
following the example of Queen Blanche of Castille, of Jeanne de
Valois, and of Queen Jeanne, wife of King John. But queens had not
usually been crowned at Reims; Queen Ysabeau, mother of the present
King, had received the crown from the hands of the Archbishop of Rouen
in the Sainte-Chapelle, in Paris.[1344] Before her time, the wives of
the kings, following the example set by Berthe, wife of Pepin the
Short, generally came to Saint-Denys to receive the crown of gold, of
sapphire and of pearls given by Jeanne of Evreux to the monks of the
Abbey.[1345] Sometimes the queens were crowned with their husbands,
sometimes alone and in a different place; many had never been crowned
at all.

[Footnote 1344: S.J. Morand, _Histoire de la Sainte-Chapelle royale du
Palais_, Paris, 1790, in 4to, p. 77, and _passim_.]

[Footnote 1345: Le P. J. Doublet, _Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Denys
en France_, Paris, 1625, in fol., ch. 1, pp. 373 _et seq._ Dom
Felibien, _Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denis_, 1706, in fol.,
pp. 203, 275, 543.]

That King Charles should have thought of taking Queen Marie