n good and loyal Frenchmen; and
I beseech and entreat you that ye make yourselves ready to
come to the anointing of the fair King Charles at Rains,
where we shall shortly be, and come ye to meet us when ye
know that we draw nigh. To God I commend you. God keep you
and give you his grace that ye may worthily maintain the
good cause of the realm of France. Written at Gien the xxvth
day of June.

Addressed "to the loyal Frenchmen of the town of
Tournay."[1351]

[Footnote 1351: _Trial_, vol. v, p. 125. _Registre des consaux,
extraits analytiques des anciens consaux de la ville de Tournay_, ed.
H. Vandenbroeck, vol. ii, p. 329. F. Hennebert, _Une lettre de Jeanne
d'Arc aux Tournaisiens_ in _Arch. hist. et litteraires du nord de la
France_, 1837, vol. i, p. 525. De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles
VII_, vol. iii, p. 516.]

An epistle in the same tenor must have been sent by the Maid's monkish
scribes to all the towns which had remained true to King Charles, and
the priests themselves must have drawn up the list of them.[1352]
They would certainly not have forgotten that town of the royal domain,
which, situated in Flanders,[1353] in the heart of Burgundian
territory, still remained loyal to its liege lord. The town of
Tournai, ceded to Philip the Good by the English government, in 1423,
had not recognised its new master. Jean de Thoisy, its bishop, resided
at Duke Philip's court;[1354] but it remained the King's town,[1355]
and the well-known attachment of its townsfolk to the Dauphin's
fortunes was exemplary and famous.[1356] The Consuls of Albi, in a
short note concerning the marvels of 1429, were careful to remark that
this northern city, so remote that they did not exactly know where it
was, still held out for France, though surrounded by France's enemies.
"The truth is that the English occupy the whole land of Normandy, and
of Picardy, except Tournay,"[1357] they wrote.

[Footnote 1352: Letter from Charles VII to the people of Dauphine,
published by Fauche-Prunelle, in _Bulletin de l'Academie Delphinale_,
vol. ii, p. 459; to the inhabitants of Tours, in _Le Cabinet
historique_, vol. i, C. p. 109; to those of Poitiers, by Redet, in
_Les memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires de l'Ouest_, vol. iii, p.
106. _Relation du greffier de la Rochelle_ in _Revue historique_, vol.
iv, p. 341.]

[Footnote 1353: This is a mere form of speech. Le Tournesis has always
been territory se