Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, dissertation ix.

Loiseleur, _Compte des depenses de Charles VII_, ch.v.Lottin, _Recherches historiques sur la ville d'Orleans_, vol.ii, p.205.Morosini, vol.iii, p.

25, note 2.] [Footnote 853: _Journal du siege_, p.

64.] [Footnote 854: _Ibid._, p.

59.] In the Christendom of those days all men were taught to believe that earthquakes, wars, famine, pestilence are punishments for wrong-doing.
Charles, the Fair Duke of Orleans, good Christian that he was, held that great sorrows had come upon France as chastisement for her sins, to wit: swelling pride, gluttony, sloth, covetousness, lust, and neglect of justice, which were rife in the realm; and in a ballad he discoursed of the evil and its remedy.[855] The people of Orleans firmly believed that this war was sent to them of God to punish sinners, who had worn out his patience.