lace was
taken. But as night had now fallen, and she was wounded, and the
men-at-arms were weary with the long attack, De Gaucourt and others came
and found her, and, against her will, brought her forth from the fosse.
And so ended that onslaught. But right sad she was to leave, and said,
"By my baton, the place would have been taken." They put her on
horseback, and led her to her quarters, and all the rest of the king's
company who that day had come from St. Denis.'

So Cagny tells the story. He was, we may believe, with d'Alencon and the
party covering the attack. Jean Chartier, who was living at the time,
adds that the Maid did not know that the inner moats were full of water.
When she reached the water, she had faggots and other things thrown in
to fill up a passage. At nightfall she would not retreat, and at last
d'Alencon came and forced her to return. The Clerk of Parliament, who,
of course, was within the walls, says that the attack lasted till ten or
eleven o'clock at night, and that, in Paris, there was a cry that all
was lost.

Joan behaved as gallantly as she did at Les Tourelles. Though wounded
she was still pressing on, still encouraging her men, but she was not
followed. She was not only always eager to attack, but she never lost
heart, she never lost grip. An army of men as brave as Joan would have
been invincible.

'Next day,' says Cagny, 'in spite of her wound, she was first in the
field. She went to d'Alencon and bade him sound the trumpets for the
charge. D'Alencon and the other captains were of the same mind as the
Maid, and Montmorency with sixty gentlemen and many lances came in,
though he had been on the English side before. So they began to march on
Paris, but the king sent messengers, the Duc de Bar, and the Comte de
Clermont, and compelled the Maid and the captains to return to St.
Denis. Right sorry were they, yet they must obey the king. They hoped to
take Paris from the other side, by a bridge which the Duc d'Alencon had
made across the Seine. But the king knew the duke's and the Maid's
design, and caused the bridge to be broken down, and a council was held,
and the king desired to depart and go to the Loire, to the great grief
of the Maid. When she saw that they would go, she dedicated her armour,
and hung it up before the statue of Our Lady at St. Denis, and so right
sadly went away in company with the king. And thus were broken the will
of the Maid and the army of the king.'

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