For the Maid, with D'Alencon, rode from Compiegne towards Paris, on the twenty-third of August, if I remember well"; and here he turned about certain written parchments that lay by him.

"Yea, on the twenty-third she left Compiegne, but on the twenty-eighth of that month the Archbishop of Reims entered the town, and there he met the ambassadors of the Good Duke of Burgundy.

There he and they made a compact between them, binding your King and the Duke, that their truce should last till Noel, but that the duke might use his men in the defence of Paris against all that might make onfall.

Now, the Archbishop and the King knew well that the Maid was, in that hour, marching on Paris.

To what purpose make a truce, and leave out of the peace the very point where war should be?
Manifestly the French King never meant to put forth the strength of his army in helping the Maid.