CHAPTER IX.
THE MAID AT TOURS At Tours the Maid lodged in the house of a dame commonly called Lapau.[799] She was Eleonore de Paul, a woman of Anjou, who had been lady-in-waiting to Queen Marie of Anjou.

Married to Jean du Puy, Lord of La Roche-Saint-Quentin, Councillor of the Queen of Sicily, she had remained in the service of the Queen of France.[800] [Footnote 799: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

66.] [Footnote 800: Vallet de Viriville, _Notices et extraits de chartes et de manuscrits appartenant au British Museum de Londres_, in the _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, vol.viii, pp.

139, 140.] The town of Tours belonged to the Queen of Sicily, who grew richer and richer as her son-in-law grew poorer and poorer.

She aided him with money and with lands.