xxvi, xxvii.] Such words from a young Lorraine warrior are worthy of notice.

The Treaty of Troyes did not subject France to England; it united the two kingdoms.

If war continued after as before, it was merely to decide between the two claimants, Charles de Valois and Henry of Lancaster.
Whoever gained the victory, nothing would be changed in the laws and customs of France.

Yet this poor freebooter of the German Marches imagined none the less that under an English king he would be an Englishman.

Many French of all ranks believed the same and could not suffer the thought of being Anglicised; in their minds their own fates depended on the fate of the kingdom and of the Dauphin Charles.
Jeanne answered Jean de Metz: "I came hither to the King's territory to speak with Sire Robert, that he may take me or command me to be taken to the Dauphin; but he heeds neither me nor my words." Then, with the fixed idea welling up in her heart that her mission must be begun before the middle of Lent: "Notwithstanding, ere mid Lent, I must be before the Dauphin, were I in going to wear my legs to the knees."[403] [Footnote 403: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.436.De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.ii, pp.