Unfortunately for the labourers of the castellany of Vaucouleurs, close to this domain, towards the north, there lived Robert de Saarbruck, Damoiseau of Commercy, who, subsisting on plunder, was especially given to the Lorraine custom of marauding.

He was of the same way of thinking as that English king who said that warfare without burnings was no good, any more than chitterlings without mustard.[222] One day, when he was besieging a little stronghold in which the peasants had taken refuge, the Damoiseau set fire to the crops of the neighbourhood and let them burn all night long, so that he might see more clearly how to place his men.[223] [Footnote 221: Colonel de Boureulle, _Le pays de Jeanne d'Arc_, Saint-Die, 1890, in 8vo, 28 small engravings.

J.Ch.

Chappellier, _Etude historique sur Domremy, pays de Jeanne d'Arc_, 2 plans; C.
Niobe, _Le pays de Jeanne d'Arc_, in _Memoires de la Societe academique de l'Aube_, 1894, 3d series, vol.xxxi, pp.

307 _et seq._] [Footnote 222: Juvenal des Ursins, in the _Collection Michaud et Poujoulat_, col.