Even when Les Tourelles were taken the conquerors remained on the watch, still expecting Talbot.[1100] But this Talbot, with whose name French mothers frightened their children, did not budge.

He had been greatly feared that day, and he himself had feared lest,[1101] if he withdrew any of his troops to succour Les Tourelles, the French would capture his camp and his forts on the west.
[Footnote 1100: _Journal du siege_, p.

88.] [Footnote 1101: Perceval de Cagny, p.147._Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

295.] The army prepared to return to the town.

In three hours, the bridge, three arches of which had been broken, was rendered passable.