The Duke d'Alencon was watching the assault from an exposed spot, and Joan remarked a piece pointed at this spot.

"Get you hence," said she to the duke; "yonder is a piece which will slay you." The Duke moved, and a moment afterwards Sire de Lude was killed at the self-same place by a shot from the said piece.

Jargeau was taken.

Before Beaugency a serious incident took place.

The constable, De Richemont, came up with a force of twelve hundred men.