214.] [Footnote 536: Loiseleur, _Comptes_, p.114.

P.Mantellier, _Histoire du siege_, p.

33.] On the 25th of December a truce was proclaimed for the celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord.

Of one faith and one religion, on feast days the hostility of the combatants ceased, and courtesy reconciled the knights of the two camps whenever the calendar reminded them that they were Christians.

Noel is a gay feast.