This was well known at Domremy, situated as it was on the highroad, and hearing the news brought by wayfarers.[229] Thus it was that the villagers heard of the murder of Duke John of Burgundy on the Bridge at Montereau, when the Dauphin's Councillors made him pay the price of the blood he had shed in the Rue Barbette.

These Councillors, however, struck a bad bargain; for the murder on the Bridge brought their young Prince very low.

There followed the war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians.

From this war the English, the obstinate enemies of the kingdom, who for two hundred years had held Guyenne and carried on a prosperous trade there,[230] sucked no small advantage.

But Guyenne was far away, and perhaps no one at Domremy knew that it had once been a part of the domain of the kings of France.