Footnote 492
Mention is made of this letter by Jean Rogier, who summarizes it from the original: "Philbert de Moulant, in charge of a contingent of troops at Nogent-sur-Seine, wrote to the inhabitants of Rheims on the first day of July in the aforesaid year of 1429, saying that the Dauphin and his forces were at Montargis and were boasting that they would go to Sens, expecting that those of Sens would open the gates to them; but that he was quite assured that the contrary was the case, and that they [the inhabitants of Sens] awaited help from the King of England, my lord the Regent and my lord of Burgundy; and that the inhabitants of the aforesaid town had taken to wearing the Cross of St. Andrew [a Burgundian symbol]; and that the towns of Auxerre and others in that region weren't worried about the Armagnacs nor the Maiden; and that, if the aforesaid inhabitants of Rheims had any trouble with her, then he would come to aid them with his contingent of troops..." (for the original language, see: Quicherat's "Procès...", Vol IV, p. 286).
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