The Isabeau queen of Bavaria, which had had the infamy to betray her husband Charles VI, to strip her own son Charles VII, and to deliver France to the English, was for the nation an object of contempt, and the English themselves insulted it.

When she died, in 1435, no bishop wanted to attend his funeral: no ceremony was made; the chronicler Jean Chartier, brother of the poet Alain Chartier, tells that the body was transferred onto a small boat, and that four people only followed the convoy.

Impatient to reign, the Louis dolphin had been put at the head of noble that the reforms of Charles VII dissatisfied; but the middle-class men and a part of noble decided vigorously against this revolt which benefitted the English.

The Dolphin, abandoned as of his, came to kneel in front of his father and to beseech his grace: "Be welcome, tells him the king, if you are determined not to fall down in similar faults; if not, the doors are open for you; we will ask others to help us to maintain our honor "

Bordeaux, the capital of Guyenne, went twice to the French: the first time, in 1451, Dunois there made a solemn entry and respected all the privileges of the city; but the second time, in 1453, it was severely punished; it was if not very French which it had pointed out the English.

Jacques-heart, endowed with the genius for business, had founded a vast maritime company, put France in relation to the Indies, fact of the treaties with the Turks and had given to the trade a rise hitherto unknown.

Become the richest man of the kingdom, it lent to Charles VII the money necessary to the conquest of Normandy, became its treasurer, and played a great political part; but calumniated by the crowd of envieux, it lost the confidence of the king and was condemned to the exile (1453).

Its hotel is still upright.

The English were overcome in Castillon to have been too presumptuous, like the French in Poitiers: their old Talbot General, having surprised a body of franks-archers, which formed the French avant-garde, thought to hold the victory, and tackled face of the roughcast cuttings off of guns: accomodated by formidable discharges, the English army became exhausted in vain efforts, then was collapsed by the cavalry French and pushed in the Dordogne.

Talbot, wounded by a ball, was completed by franks-archers (July 1453).