21/33 He was entirely dependent on the Sire de La Tremouille, who lent him money; but he was well known for his honour and his wisdom.[906] Jeanne attributed the defeats of the French to their riding forth accompanied by bad women and to their taking God's holy name in vain. And this opinion, far from being held by her alone, prevailed among persons of learning and religion; according to whom the disaster of Nicopolis was occasioned by the presence of prostitutes in the army, and by the cruelty and dissoluteness of the knights.[907] [Footnote 904: Extracts from the Accounts of Hemon Raguier, _Trial_, vol.v, pp. 257, 258.] [Footnote 905: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.211. D'Aulon had seen her at Poitiers.] [Footnote 906: _Ibid._, p.15.De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.ii, p. |