The more representatives of the blood royal are here the better."[710] In this she was completely mistaken.

The Dauphin smiled bitterly at her words.

Not much of the royal blood of France ran in the Duke's veins.
[Footnote 707: Perceval de Cagny, p.136._Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp.

224, 249.] [Footnote 708: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

91.] [Footnote 709: Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.
iii, pp.