325 _et seq._] [Footnote 1264: Gruel, _Chronique de Richemont_, p.

72.] [Footnote 1265: Wavrin du Forestel, _Anciennes chroniques_, vol.i, p.
279.] The Beaugency garrison had been in too great haste to surrender.
Scarce had it gone when a man-at-arms of Captain La Hire's company came to the Duke of Alencon saying: "The English are marching upon us.
We shall have them in front of us directly.

They are over there, full one thousand fighting men." Jeanne heard him speak but did not seize his meaning.
"What is that man-at-arms saying ?" she asked.
And when she knew, turning to Arthur of Brittany, who was close by, she said: "Ah! Fair Constable, it was not my will that you should come, but since you are here, I bid you welcome."[1266] [Footnote 1266: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

98.] The force the French had to face was Sir John Talbot and Sir John Fastolf with the whole English army..