Even in Paris, where the Armagnacs were as much feared as the Saracens, the _Godons_[100] met with very unwilling support.

What surprises us is not that the English should have been driven from France, but that it should have happened so slowly.

Does this amount to saying that the young saint had no part whatever in the work of deliverance?
By no means.

Hers was the nobler, the better part; the part of sacrifice; she set the example of the highest courage and displayed heroism in a form unexpected and charming.

The King's cause, which was indeed the national cause, she served in two ways: by giving confidence to the men-at-arms of her party, who believed her to be a bringer of good fortune, and by striking fear into the English, who imagined her to be the devil.
[Footnote 98: See the deliberations of the Commons on December 2, 1421, in Brequigny, _Lettres de rois, reines et autres personnages des cours de France et d'Angleterre_, Paris, 1847 (2 vols.