The magistrates, as well as the public, were seized with stupor in view of so great a crime and so great a criminal.
But the Duke of Orleans left a widow who, in spite of his infidelities and his irregularities, was passionately attached to him.

Valentine Visconti, the Duke of Milan's daughter, whose dowry had gone to pay the ransom of King John, was at Chateau-Thierry when she heard of her husband's murder.

Hers was one of those natures, full of softness and at the same time of fire, which grief does not overwhelm, and in which a passion for vengeance is excited and fed by their despair.

She started for Paris in the early part of December, 1407, during the roughest winter, it was said, ever known for several centuries, taking with her all her children.

The Duke of Berry, the Duke of Bourbon, the Count of Clermont, and the constable went to meet her.