He was a good Frenchman and of the Armagnac party, since four years earlier he had made war against the English and Burgundians.

She told him that she must go to the Dauphin, that she demanded to be taken to him, and that to him should redound profit and honour incomparable.
At length through her illuminations and her prophecies, her fame was spread abroad in the town; and her words were found to be good.[398] [Footnote 398: _Quae puella multum bene loquebatur._ _Trial_, vol.ii, p.450.

S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p.

103.] In the garrison there was a man-at-arms of about twenty-eight years of age, Jean de Novelompont or Nouillompont, who was commonly called Jean de Metz.

By rank a freeman, albeit not of noble estate, he had acquired or inherited the lordship of Nouillompont and Hovecourt, situate in that part of Barrois which was outside the Duke's domain; and he bore its name.[399] Formerly in the pay of Jean de Wals, Captain and Provost of Stenay, he was now, in 1428, in the service of the Commander of Vaucouleurs.
[Footnote 399: _Ibid._, vol.v, p.