The King's counsellors, as their manner was, ever hankered after a peace with Burgundy, and they stretched the false truce that was to have ended at Christmas to Easter Day, "pacem clamantes quo non fuit pax." For there was no truce with the English, who took St.
Denis again, and made booty of the arms which the Maid had dedicated to Our Lady.

On our part La Hire and Xaintrailles plundered, for their own hand, the lands of the Duke of Burgundy, and indeed on every side there was no fair fighting, such as the Maid loved, but a war of wastry, the peasants pillaged, and the poor held to ransom.

For her part, she spent her days in prayer for the poor and the oppressed, whom she had come to deliver, and who now were in worse case than before, the English harrying certain of the good towns that had yielded to King Charles.
Now her voices ever bade the Maid go back to the Isle of France, and assail Paris, where lay no English garrison, and the Armagnacs were stirring as much as they might.

But Paris, being at this time under the government of the Duke of Burgundy, was forsooth within the truce.

The King's counsellors, therefore, setting their wisdom against that of the Saints, bade the Maid go against the towns of St.Pierre le Moustier and La Charite, then held by the English on the Loire.