Jeanne was resolute to complete her task, and while the English remained panic-stricken around Paris she brought Charles to march upon Reims, the old crowning-place of the kings of France.

Troyes and Chalons submitted as she reached them, Reims drove out the English garrison and threw open her gates to the king.
[Sidenote: Capture of Jeanne] With his coronation the Maid felt her errand to be over.

"O gentle King, the pleasure of God is done," she cried, as she flung herself at the feet of Charles and asked leave to go home.

"Would it were His good will," she pleaded with the Archbishop as he forced her to remain, "that I might go and keep sheep once more with my sisters and my brothers: they would be so glad to see me again!" But the policy of the French Court detained her while the cities of the North of France opened their gates to the newly-consecrated king.

Bedford however, who had been left without money or men, had now received reinforcements.