4, and proofs and illustrations, lxxj.] [Footnote 617: Le P.Denifle, _La desolation des eglises_, _loc.

cit._ According to a "legitimist" fiction he pleads the service he had rendered to King Charles VI, and his son the Dauphin "_...

tam propter sue persone debililitatem, quam etiam propter assidua viagia et ambassiatas, que ipse serviendo Carolo Francorum regi et Carolo, ejusdem regis unigenito filio, dalphino Viennensi...._"] In 1425, when the King and the kingdom were governed by President Louvet,[618] a learned lawyer, who may well have been a rogue, my Lord Regnault was appointed Chancellor of France in the place of my Lord Martin Gouges of Charpaigne, Bishop of Clermont.[619] But shortly afterwards, when the Constable of France, Arthur of Brittany, had dismissed Louvet, Regnault sold his appointment to Martin Gouges for a pension of two thousand five hundred _livres tournois_.[620] [Footnote 618: Vallet de Viriville, _Nouvelle biographie generale_.

De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.i, pp.

64 _et seq._] [Footnote 619: F.Duchesne, _Histoire des chanceliers et gardes des sceaux de France_, 1680, in fol., p.