51/72 S. 274 _et seq._ Lefevre-Pontalis, _Etude historique et geographique sur Domremy, pays de Jeanne d'Arc_, in _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, vol.lvi, pp. 154-168.] The precaution proved to be useful. In that very year, 1419, Robert de Saarbruck and his company met the men of the brothers Didier and Durand at the village of Maxey, the thatched roofs of which were to be seen opposite Greux, on the other bank of the Meuse, along the foot of wooded hills. The two sides here engaged in a battle, in which the victorious Damoiseau took thirty-five prisoners, whom he afterwards liberated after having exacted a high ransom, as was his wont. |