[The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) CHAPTER V 18/98
133, 205, 277, _passim_. Jollois, _Histoire du siege_, p.21.
H.Baraude, _Le siege d'Orleans et Jeanne d'Arc_, Paris, 1906, pp.
10 _et seq._] [Footnote 486: Le Maire, _Antiquites_, p.
43.] Towards the west the _faubourg_ of La Porte Renard stretched out into the fields along the road to Chateaudun, and the hamlet of Saint-Laurent along the road to Blois.[487] [Footnote 487: Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, p.296.Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc, le ravitaillement d'Orleans, nouveaux documents_, Orleans, 1874, in large 8vo, with topographical plan: _Orleans, la Loire et ses iles en 1429_.] These _faubourgs_ were so populous and so extensive that when, on the approach of the English, the people from the suburbs took refuge within the city the number of its inhabitants was doubled.[488] [Footnote 488: Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, pp.
391, 399. Jollois, _Histoire du siege_, pp.
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