In the Hotel Armagnac, confiscated, as so many others were, from its owner, a show was exhibited to amuse the people.

"Four blind men, armed with staves, were shut up with a pig in a little paddock.

They had to see whether they could kill the said pig, and when they thought they were belaboring it most they were belaboring one another." The constable resolved to put a stop to this deplorable state of things in the capital of France.

In April, 1433, when he had just ordered for himself apartments at St.Denis, he heard that the English had just got in there and plundered the church.

He at once gave orders to march.