This latter soon began to ill-treat her, having failed by entreaties to induce her to make over her possessions to him; finding her resolved, he leagued himself with one of her old enemies, Jean d'Armagnac, and they agreed together to share the spoil of her heritage.

She was dragged about, from prison to prison, first in one strong castle and then in another, for fear of its being known where she existed; and for many years she languished in this misery.

At this time Charles VII.

was at the height of his successes, and some friend had contrived to inform her of the changed aspect of affairs in France.

In order to induce him to undertake her cause, she, by means of the same friend, let him know that she had named him heir of all her property and estates--knowing, probably, too well, how little weight any consideration but personal interest would have.
The tyrants soon discovered what she had done, and her treatment became still worse.