He pressed for peace: and conferences for this purpose were held at Arras in 1435.

Their failure only served him as a pretext for concluding a formal treaty with Charles; and his desertion was followed by a yet more fatal blow to the English cause in the death of Bedford.

The loss of the Regent was the signal for the loss of Paris.

In the spring of 1436 the city rose suddenly against its English garrison and declared for King Charles.
Henry's dominion shrank at once to Normandy and the outlying fortresses of Picardy and Maine.

But reduced as they were to a mere handful, and fronted by a whole nation in arms, the English soldiers struggled on with as desperate a bravery as in their days of triumph.