32/104 By this time the Council had sent men-at-arms and cannon to Orleans. No sooner was my Lord of Reims appointed than he threw himself into the city and spared no trouble.[623] He was keenly attached to the goods of this world and might pass for a miser.[624] But there can be no doubt of his devotion to the royal cause, nor of his hatred of those who fought under the Leopard and the Red Cross.[625] [Footnote 621: De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.ii, p. 407.] [Footnote 623: _Journal du siege_, p. 51.] [Footnote 624: Le P.Denifle, _La desolation des eglises_, introduction. _Cf._ the collection of official receipts in the National Library, fr. |