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Updated: June 1, 2025
They again began the Rosary at Amboise, where they said the first chaplet, the five joyful mysteries; then, after singing the canticle, "O loving Mother, bless," at Blois, they recited the second chaplet, the five sorrowful mysteries, at Beaugency.
He has left me to deliver judgment in the matter of his own lands passing into your possession. What do you say to it, Marcel?" It was almost with reluctance that I took up that scrap of paper. It had been so fine and heroic a thing to have cast my wealth to the winds of heaven for love's sake, that on my soul I was loath to see myself master of more than Beaugency.
We could not leave the place without visiting the statue raised in honour of Joan of Arc, that extraordinary woman, to whom the monarchy once owed its safety. On leaving Orléans, the Loire, and the fertile pastures through which it rolls its waters, excited our admiration. We had on our right the beautiful vineyards of Beaugency. The road, as far as Amboise, is delightful.
"Monsieur," interrupted D'Artagnan, "you shall drink of a liquor which comes from one single French word, and is none the worse for that from the word grape; this cider gives me the heartburn. Allow me to inquire of your host if there is not a good bottle of Beaugency, or of the Ceran growth, at the back of the large bins in his cellar." The host, being sent for, immediately attended.
Strike three blows on the door, and call out: 'On service from Messieurs de Guise! The man will appear to be a rabid Guisist; no one knows but our four selves that he is one of us. He will give you a faithful boatman, another Guisist of his own cut. Go down at once to the wharf, and embark in a boat painted green and edged with white. You will doubtless land at Beaugency to-morrow about mid-day.
Almost at the very moment when Suger was dying, a French council, assembled at Beaugency, was annulling on the ground of prohibited consanguinity, and with the tacit consent of the two persons most concerned, the marriage of Louis VII. and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Many men came in to fight under her flag, among them Richemont, who had been on bad terms with Charles, the uncrowned king. Then Joan took the bridge-fort at Meun, which the English held; next she drove the English at Beaugency into the citadel, and out of the town. As to what happened next, we have the story of Wavrin, who was fighting on the English side under Fastolf.
I cried in greeting, as he stepped into the room. "Are you still for Beaugency?" he asked sharply, throwing back his head. "Why, yes," I answered, wondering at this excitement. "Then you have seen nothing of Saint-Eustache and his men?" "Nothing." "Yet they must have passed this way not many hours ago."
Tell him that I hold, at Beaugency, a passage over the Loire, and that if he will be pleased to send to me you or M. de Rebours, I will admit into the town him whom he sends to me." Upon receiving these overtures, the King of Navarre thought a while, scratching his head; then he said to Rosny, "Do you think that the king has good intentions towards me, and means to treat with me in good faith?"
And so, through having delayed my departure by a single day, did it come to pass that a message reached me before it might have been too late. It was high noon of the morrow. Our horses stood saddled; indeed, some of my men were already mounted for I was not minded to disband them until Beaugency was reached and my two coaches were both ready for the journey.
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