Note 93 — Chapter IX · JEANNE D’ARC—PARIS UNDER THE ENGLISH—END OF THE ENGLISH OCCUPATION

In 1421 and 1422 the people of Paris had seen Henry V. and his French consort sitting in state at the Louvre, surrounded by a brilliant throng of princes, prelates and barons. Hungry crowds watched the sumptuous banquet and then went away fasting, for nothing was offered them. “It was not so in the former times under our kings,” they murmured, “then there was open table kept, and servants distributed the meats and wine even of the king himself.”