It is not clear in what manner l’Isle Adam incurred the displeasure of our Henry the fifth, the regent of France. French writers ascribe the circumstance to the pride and arrogance of the English sovereign, who required the most abject homage from all his French courtiers. L’Isle Adam, they tell us, having one day come into the royal presence in a plain grey dress, the monarch sternly asked him whether that was a fit dress for a marshal. “Dearest lord,” said the offender, “I had it made to travel in from Sens to Paris;” and, while he spoke, he looked at the king. “What!” exclaimed Henry, “do you dare to look a prince in the face?” “Most dread lord,” answered the marshal, “it is the custom in France; and if any one avoids looking at the person to whom he talks, he is considered as a bad man and a traitor; therefore, in God’s name, do not be offended.”—“Such is not our custom,” Henry sourly replied, and here the dialogue ended. If this story be true, it speaks ill for the policy, and worse for the disposition, of the victor of Agincourt. A few days after this conversation is supposed to have occurred, L’Isle Adam was committed to the Bastile, on the false and absurd charge of meaning to betray Paris to the dauphin. About a thousand of the citizens took up arms to rescue him, on his way to the fortress, but they were put to flight by the small band of English archers, which was escorting him to prison. L’Isle Adam, it is affirmed, would have passed from the Bastile to the scaffold, had he not been saved by the remonstrances of Philip the Good, and the death of Henry. After the decease of Henry, L’Isle Adam rejoined the Burgundian standard, and took so active and effective a part in the war, that, when the order of the Golden Fleece was established, he was one of the first on whom it was conferred. In 1437, he followed the duke of Burgundy into Brabant, and on the 22nd of May, of that year, he was killed in a popular insurrection, which took place at Bruges. It was not till the 22nd of September, 1429, that any attempt was made to disturb the English in their occupation of Paris. Flushed with its recent successes, and hoping that the citizens would rise upon the garrison, the army of Charles assaulted on that day the ramparts of the capital, between the gates of St. Honoré and St. Denis. The assault, led by Joan of Arc, continued for four hours; but the glorious heroine was severely wounded through the thigh, and the assailants were compelled to retire.