[Footnote 617: Le P. Denifle, _La desolation des eglises_, _loc. cit._ According to a "legitimist" fiction he pleads the service he had rendered to King Charles VI, and his son the Dauphin "_... tam propter sue persone debililitatem, quam etiam propter assidua viagia et ambassiatas, que ipse serviendo Carolo Francorum regi et Carolo, ejusdem regis unigenito filio, dalphino Viennensi...._"] In 1425, when the King and the kingdom were governed by President Louvet,[618] a learned lawyer, who may well have been a rogue, my Lord Regnault was appointed Chancellor of France in the place of my Lord Martin Gouges of Charpaigne, Bishop of Clermont.[619] But shortly afterwards, when the Constable of France, Arthur of Brittany, had dismissed Louvet, Regnault sold his appointment to Martin Gouges for a pension of two thousand five hundred _livres tournois_.[620] [Footnote 618: Vallet de Viriville, _Nouvelle biographie generale_. De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. i, pp. 64 _et seq._] [Footnote 619: F. Duchesne, _Histoire des chanceliers et gardes des sceaux de France_, 1680, in fol., p. 483.] [Footnote 620: The _livre_ of Tours was worth ten pence, while that of Paris was worth one shilling (W.S.). National Archives, p. 2298.] The Reverend Father in God, my Lord the Archbishop of Reims, was not as rich, far from it, as my Lord de la Tremouille; but he made the best of what he had. Like the Sire de la Tremouille he lent money to the King.[621] But in those days who did not lend the King money? Charles VII gave him the town and castle of Vierzon in payment of a debt of sixteen thousand _livres tournois_.[622] When La Tremouille had treated the Constable as the Constable had treated Louvet, Regnault de Chartres became Chancellor again. He entered into his office on the 8th of November, 1428. By this time the Council had sent men-at-arms and cannon to Orleans. No sooner was my Lord of Reims appointed than he threw himself into the city and spared no trouble.[623] He was keenly attached to the goods of this world and might pass for a miser.[624] But there can be no doubt of his devotion to the royal cause, nor of his hatred of those who fought under the Leopard and the Red Cross.[625] [Footnote 621: De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. ii, p. 632.] [Footnote 622: Le P. Anselme, _Histoire genealogique de la maison de France_, vol. i, p. 407.] [Footnote 623: _Journal du siege_, p. 51.] [Footnote 624: Le P. Denifle, _La desolation des eglises_, introduction. _Cf._ the collection of official receipts in the National Library, fr. 20,887, original documents 693, Clairambault, _deeds_, _seals_, vol. 29.] [Footnote 625: F. Duchesne, _Histoire des chanceliers et garde des sceaux de France_, p. 487.]