Note 350 — BOOK V
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Jeanne Hachette (b. circa 1454) of Beauvais defended that place in 1472, at the head of a regiment of women, against the Burgundians under Charles the Bold. Her real name is uncertain: historians vary between Fouquet, Fourquet and Lainé; she was called Hachette after the axe which she bore during the siege.—T.