True it is that the letter from Blois indicates the poverty of the French prose of that time when not enriched by an Alain Chartier; but it contains neither term nor expression which is not to be met with in the good authors of the day.

The words may not be correctly ordered, but the style is none the less vivacious.

There is nothing to suggest that the writer came from the banks of the Meuse; no trace is there of the speech of Lorraine or Champagne.[899] It is clerkly French.
[Footnote 898: _Per unam litteram suo materno idiomate confectam, verbis bene simplicibus_, _Trial_, vol.iv, p.

7, evidence of the Bastard of Orleans.

Mathieu Thomassin, _Registre Delphinal_, in the _Trial_, vol.iv, p.