17/98 Directly north, the _faubourg_ of La Porte Bernier lay along the Paris road, and close by there stretched the sombre city of the wolves, the deep forest of oaks, horn-beams, beeches, and willows, wherein were hidden, like wood-cutters and charcoal-burners, the villages of Fleury and Samoy.[486] [Footnote 485: _Journal du siege_, pp. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.270.Hubert, _Antiquites historiques de l'eglise royale d'Orleans_, Orleans, 1661, in 8vo. Le Maire, _Antiquites_, p. 284. |