It was well known, too, that the fairies cast spells.
There were those who discovered that Jeanne had met a wicked fairy there.

"Jeannette has met her fate beneath _l'Arbre des Fees_,"[351] they said.

Would that none but peasants had believed that story! [Footnote 351: _Ibid._, vol.i, p.

68.] On the 22nd of June, from the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France for Henry VI, Antoine de Vergy, Governor of Champagne, received a commission to furnish forth a thousand men-at-arms for the purpose of bringing the castellany of Vaucouleurs into subjection to the English.
Three weeks later, commanded by the two Vergy, Antoine and Jean, the little company set forth.

It consisted of four knights-banneret, fourteen knights-bachelor, and three hundred and sixty-three men-at-arms.