Since then, only a few days apart, King Henry V of Lancaster and King Charles VI of Valois, the victorious king and the mad king, had departed to present themselves before God, the Judge of the good and the evil, the just and the unjust, the weak and the powerful.

The castellany of Vaucouleurs was French.[236] Dwelling there were clerks and nobles who pitied that later Joash, torn from his enemies in childhood, an orphan spoiled of his heritage, in whom centred the hope of the kingdom.

But how can we imagine that poor husbandmen had leisure to ponder on these things?
How can we really believe that the peasants of Domremy were loyal to the Dauphin Charles, their lawful lord, while the Lorrainers of Maxey, following their Duke, were on the side of the Burgundians?
[Footnote 229: Lienard, _Dictionnaire topographique de la Meuse_, introduction, p.

x.] [Footnote 230: Dom Devienne, _Histoire de Bordeaux_, pp.

98, 103.