sur les Anglais, * from the English

Jergeau, or yargeauy a town .on the Loire, a few miles above Orléans, was occupied by the Earl of Suffolk, after the siège of Orléans had been raised. It was storined by the French under Jeanne d'Arc, Alençon and Dunois, on June i4th, 1429.

Meung is on the Loire below Orléans. After the capture of Jargeau, the French captured the bridge of Meung, and the castle was evacuated by the English.

Beaugency, on the Loire, below Meung. The castle was occupied by the English, and surrendered June i8th, 1429, when Talbot was marching to relieve it.

7. la Beauce. A name formerly given to the district north of Orléans.

10. Neuville. Neuville aux Bois is north-east from Orléans, on the edge of the forest of Orléans.

21. des sillons en friche, *of the furrows in the fallow lands,' literally, 'of the fallow furrows.'

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I. Quand il s'agirait du paradis, 'though heaven were at stake.' Quand is again used in the protasis of a conditional sentence, Eve § 284.

14. de l'oBll. This is the genitive of instrument or means, Eve§ 1300.

15. q,iii pût. Hère the relative clause expresses a conséquence, and hence is in the subjunctive. Eve § 255 (3).

19. Ne doutant point que ce ne fût. Hère douter used negatively is followed by que ne with subjunctive (Latin quin). The subordinate clause states a supposition only, and one which is not true, hence it is in the subjunctive. Eve §§ 240 Obs. 194.