437.] At length these Lorrainers beheld a French town loyal to the King of France.

They had travelled seventy-five leagues through the enemy's country without being attacked or molested.

Afterwards this was considered miraculous.

But was it impossible for seven or eight Armagnac horsemen to traverse English and Burgundian lands without misadventure?
The Commander of Vaucouleurs frequently sent letters to the Dauphin which reached him, and the Dauphin was in the habit of despatching messengers to the Commander; Colet de Vienne had just borne his message.[456] [Footnote 456: _Ibid._, vol.ii, pp.

406, 432, 445, 448, 457.] In point of fact the followers of the Dauphin ran risks well nigh as great in the provinces under his sway as in lands subject to other masters.[457] [Footnote 457: Monstrelet, vol.v, p.269.Th.Basin, vol.i, p.