CHAPTER XV.
THE TAKING OF JARGEAU--THE BRIDGE OF MEUNG--BEAUGENCY On Monday, the 6th of June, the King lodged at Saint-Aignan near Selles-en-Berry.[1179] Among the gentlemen of his company were two sons of that Dame de Laval who, in her widowhood, had made the mistake of loving a landless cadet.

Andre, the younger, at the age of twenty, had just passed under the cloud of a disgrace common to nearly all nobles in those days; his grandmother's second husband, Sire Bertrand Du Guesclin, had experienced it several times.

Taken prisoner in the chateau of Laval by Sir John Talbot, he had incurred a heavy debt in order to furnish the sixteen thousand golden crowns of his ransom.[1180] [Footnote 1179: Letter from Gui and Andre de Laval to the Ladies de Laval, in _Trial_, vol.v, p.106.

L.Jeny and Lanery d'Arc, _Jeanne D'Arc en Berry_, Paris, 1892, in 8vo, p.

54.] [Footnote 1180: Bertrand de Broussillon, _La maison de Laval_, vol.
iii, p.