cit._ p.61.Couret, _Un fragment inedit des anciens registres de la Prevote d'Orleans_.] It would doubtless have been expedient to attempt to destroy that formidable army of Sir John Fastolf which had lately terrified the good folk of Orleans.

But no one knew where to find it.

It had disappeared somewhere between Orleans and Paris.

It would have been necessary to go forth to seek it; that was impossible, and no one thought of doing such a thing.

So scientific a manoeuvre was never dreamed of in the warfare of those days.