304.] [Footnote 705: _Sandal_ or _cendal_, a silk bearing some resemblance to taffetas.Cf.Godefroy, _Lexique de l'ancien francais_ (W.S.).] [Footnote 706: Du Cange, _Glossaire_, under the word _auriflamma_.

Le Roux de Lincy and Tisserand, _Paris et ses historiens_, pp.

150, 251, 257, 259.

[_Histoire generale de Paris._]] One day when the Maid and the King were talking together, the Duke of Alencon entered the hall.

When he was a child, the English had taken him prisoner at Verneuil and kept him five years in the Crotoy Tower.[707] Only recently set at liberty, he had been shooting quails near Saint-Florent-les-Saumur, when a messenger had brought the tidings that God had sent a damsel to the King to turn the English out of France.[708] This news interested him as much as any one because he had married the Duke of Orleans' daughter; and straightway he had come to Chinon to see for himself.