CHAPTER XXIV .-- --THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR .-- CHARLES VII.

AND JOAN.
OF ARC.

1422-1461.
[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF JOAN OF ARC----85] Whilst Charles VI.

was dying at Paris, his son Charles, the _dauphin_, was on his way back from Saintonge to Berry, where he usually resided.
On the 24th of October, 1422, at Mehun-sur-Yevre, he heard of his father's death.

For six days longer, from the 24th to the 29th of October, he took no style but that of regent, as if he were waiting to see what was going to happen elsewhere in respect of the succession to the throne.