Arrived at Orleans, Gilles de Retz installed himself, with his personal adjutants, at the Hôtel Croix d’Or (Golden Cross), while his suite and high officers with their respective retinues, were installed at the other hotels, until, as the minute says, there was not a hotel in all Orleans but was occupied, if not filled, by him or by the officers and men of his suite. His “college,” that is, the ecclesiastics, twenty-five or thirty persons, were installed at the _Écu_ (Crown) _de Saint Georges_; the choir and their leader at the _Enseigne de l’Épée_ (Sign of the Sword); his armourer, Hector Broisset, at the _Coupe_; his brother, René de la Suze, at the _Petit Saumon_ (Little Salmon); his councillors, Gilles de Sillé, Guy de Bonnière, Guyot de Chambrays, Guillaume Tardif, and Guy de Blanchfort, with his captain of the guard, Loys l’Angevin, at the _Grand Saumon_ (Great Salmon); his chevaliers, Monseignieurs de Martigné, Foulques Blasmes, Jean de Rains, and Bauleis, at the _Image de Sainte Marie Madeleine_; Jean de Montecler, with Colin le Godelier; his _Rais le herault_ (herald) and suite, with men-at-arms, at the _Tête Noire_; his chariots and horses, with those of his brother René, at the _Roche-Boulet_; the vicar of the chapel, the priest Le Blond and his barber, and the horses of the “college” at _l’Enseigne du Fourbisseur_; the Seignieur Jean de Veille, Bois-Roulier, his provost, George the trumpeter, at the house of Jeannette la Pionne; Thomas his _enlumineur_, at _le Dieu d’Amour_ (God of Love); while men-at-arms, servants, lackeys, and followers, occupied the _Cheval Blanc_ (White Horse), _l’Homme Sauvage_ (Savage Man), and _l’Écu d’Orléans_ (the Crown of Orleans). While at Orleans, in 1434, he made thence, during the autumn, a trip to the Bourbonnais country, stopping for a time at Montlucon, at the hotel _l’Écu_ (Crown) _de France_. When his hotel bill for eight hundred and ten _reaux d’or_ was presented, he could pay only four hundred and ninety-five, and his two servitors, Jean de Sellier and Huet de Villarceau, became his guarantors of payment. Everything during the trip was at his expense. They all travelled on horseback, unless it was some high dignitary or _quelque malade_ (sick) who had a chariot. Horses and all expenditures were furnished by him, and preparing for such a trip, everybody was provided with new, striking, and, consequently, expensive costumes, suitable for the suite of such a rich and puissant Baron. On his return to Brittany in August, 1435, it was found that his travels during the year had cost the round sum of eighty thousand golden crowns. The _Mémoires_ say this trip left a train of “devoured revenues, lands sold, seigniories mortgaged, works of art and valuables hypothecated, with considerable debts and unpaid loans _très onéreux_, which menaced ruin and opened an abyss threatening to engulf everything.”