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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XVI
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326 _et seq._] On the morrow, Saturday, the 18th, Saint Hubert's day, the French went forth against them.

They were not there.

The _Godons_ had decamped early in the morning and gone off, with cannon, ammunition, and victuals, towards Janville,[1275] where they intended to entrench themselves.
[Footnote 1275: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, _Journal du siege_, Gruel, J.Chartier, Berry, _loc.

cit._] Straightway King Charles's army of twelve thousand men[1276] set out in pursuit of them.

Along the Paris road they went, over the plain of Beauce, wooded, full of game, covered with thickets and brushwood, wild, but finely to the taste of English and French riders, who praised it highly.[1277] [Footnote 1276: Wavrin du Forestel, _Anciennes chroniques_, vol.i, p.
289.


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