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

lxvi, cxcix.] [Footnote 424: _Oeuvres du Roi Rene_, by Le Comte de Quatrebarbes, Angers, 1845, vol.i, preface, pp.

lxxvi _et seq._ Lecoy de la Marche, _Le Roi Rene, sa vie, son administration, ses travaux artistiques et litteraires_, Paris, 1875, 2 vols.

in 8vo, and Giry, Review in the _Revue critique_.] [Footnote 425: _La guerre de la hottee de pommes._] [Footnote 426: Dom Calmet, _Histoire de Lorraine_, vol.ii, col.

695, 703.] Meanwhile Rene's mother was sending convoys of victuals from Blois to the citizens of Orleans, besieged by the English.[427] Although she was not then on good terms with the counsellors of her son-in-law, King Charles, she was vigilant in opposing the enemies of the kingdom when they threatened her own duchy of Anjou.