140.] [Footnote 1240: Le Roux de Lincy, _La bibliotheque de Charles d'Orleans a son chateau de Blois, en 1427_, Paris, 1843, 8vo, pp.

5-7.
Comte de Laborde, _Les ducs de Bourgogne, etudes sur les lettres, les arts et l'industrie pendant le XV'e siecle_, Paris, 1852, vol.iii, pp.

235 _et seq._--_Inventaires et documents relatifs aux joyaux et tapisseries des princes d'Orleans-Valois_, Paris, 1894, 8vo.] Some have wished to believe that from his duchy news reached him of the Maid's coming.

They have gone so far as to imagine that a faithful servant kept him informed of the happy incidents of May and June, 1429;[1241] but nothing is less certain.

On the contrary, the probability is that the English refused to let him receive any message, and that he was totally ignorant of all that was going on in the two kingdoms.[1242] [Footnote 1241: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, Introduction by Vallet de Viriville, pp.