After the middle of April, a citizen of Angers, one Jean Langlois, brought letters informing the magistrates of the imminent arrival of the corn she had contributed.

The town gave Jean Langlois a present, and the magistrates entertained him at dinner at the Ecu Saint-Georges.

This corn was a part of that large convoy which the Maid was to accompany.[869] [Footnote 869: Receipts of the town of Orleans in 1429, in Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, p.

36.] Towards the end of the month, by order of my Lord the Bastard, the captains of the French garrisons of La Beauce and Gatinais, betook themselves to the town to reinforce the army of Blois, the arrival of which was announced.

On the 28th, there entered my Lord Florent d'Illiers,[870] Governor of Chateaudun, with four hundred fighting men.[871] [Footnote 870: Florent d'Illiers, descended from an old family of the Chartres country, had married Jeanne, daughter of Jean de Coutes and sister of the little page whom the Sire de Gaucourt had given the Maid (A.de Villaret).] [Footnote 871: _Journal du siege_, p.73._Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.