Andre du Chesne, p.
412.] Seeing that war was to last as long as life, it was waged with deliberation.

Men-at-arms, horse-soldiers and foot, archers, cross-bowmen, Armagnacs as well as English and Burgundians, fought with no great ardour.

Of course they were brave: but they were cautious too and were not ashamed to confess it.

Jean Chartier, precentor of Saint-Denys, chronicler of the Kings of France, relating how on a day the French met the English near Lagny, adds: "And there the battle was hard and fierce, for the French were barely more than the English."[97] These simple folk, seeing that one man is as good as another, admitted the risk of fighting one to one.

Their minds had not fed on Plutarch as had those of the Revolution and the Empire.