We hear of frescoes in the house of Joan of Arc, executed by some unknown artist in 1481 (the year of Fouquet's demise), which represented that great heroine and her noble deeds. Had they but survived an interesting page of history would have come down to us and we might have even possessed an authentic likeness of her. Montaigne, when passing through the country of Lorraine on his way to Italy, saw these paintings, and makes mention of them in his _Journal_[65] as follows: "_La maisonette où naquit Jeanne d'Arc est toutes peintes de ses gestes; mais l'orage en a fort corrompu la peinture_"--a further proof of the havoc played upon early French Art by time and neglect. A younger contemporary of Fouquet was Simon Marmion, who lived at Valenciennes and is chiefly known to us by his fine altarpiece at Saint-Bertin: a composition now divided between Berlin and London. Moreover, two of Fouquet's sons served their father as assistants and to them may be ascribed some of the works of his school--such, for instance, as a miniature representing an _Angelic Choir_ shown at the Exhibition of Illuminated MSS. arranged by the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1908. Bourdichon and Jean Perréal, Jean Payet and Jean Colombe may be considered as followers of Fouquet; yet documentary evidence is very scanty. It is true, however, that there exist some fragments of historical information which would seem to allude to their work; as, for example, the following fact. Some fifty years ago cartridges which had been made up during the time of the Revolution in default of other material out of old manuscripts and contracts were found in the arsenal of the Hôtel des Invalides; and it was to Comte de Laborde that the idea occurred of making a closer investigation of the composition of these cartridges. After a careful study of those time-worn and crumpled fragments he discovered upon one of them the name of Bourdichon and with it the additional facts that he resided in the town of Tours, where Fouquet was born; that his birth took place in 1457; that at the early age of twenty-one he was entrusted with the execution of certain frescoes in a chapel; and that he was Court-Painter to Charles VIII, whose portrait he painted, as well as that of his Queen, Anne de Bretagne. A small portrait of her son, _Prince Orlant_,[66] who died in childhood, has been attributed to Bourdichon; and a similar portrait, representing his younger brother _Charles_, which came to light only recently[67] and was acquired by the Louvre, is evidently by the same hand.[68]