to aid him “in reinstating the king in his freedom and lordship, and the realm in its freedom and just rights.”  The Count of Armagnac was no more tender with the court than with the populace of Paris.  He suspected, not without reason, that the queen, Isabel of Bavaria, was in secret communication with and gave information to Duke John.  Moreover, she was leading a scandalously licentious life at Vincennes; and one of her favorites, Louis de Bosredon, a nobleman of Auvergne and her steward, meeting the king one day on the road, greeted the king cavalierly and hastily went his way.  Charles VI. was plainly offended.  The Count of Armagnac seized the opportunity; and not only did he foment the king’s ill-humor, but talked to him of all the irregularities of which the queen was the centre, and in which Louis de Bosredon was, he said, at that time her principal accomplice.  Charles, in spite of the cloud upon his mind, could hardly have been completely ignorant cf such facts; but it is not necessary to be a king to experience extreme displeasure on learning that offensive scandals are almost public, and on hearing the whole tale of them.  The king, carried away by his anger, went straight to Vincennes, had a violent scene with his wife, and caused Bosredon to be arrested, imprisoned, and put to the question; and he, on his own confession it is said, was thrown into the Seine, sewn up in a leathern sack, on which were inscribed the words, “Let the king’s justice run its course!” Charles VI. and Armagnac did not stop there.  Queen Isabel was first of all removed from the council and stripped of all authority, and then banished to Tours, where commissioners were appointed to watch over her conduct, and not to let her even write a letter without their seeing it.  But royal personages can easily elude such strictness.  A few months after her banishment, whilst the despotism of Armagnac and the war between the king and the Duke of Burgundy were still going on, Queen Isabel managed to send to the duke, through one of her servants, her golden seal, which John the Fearless well knew, with a message to the effect that she would go with him if he would come to fetch her.  On the night of November 1, 1417, the Duke of Burgundy hurriedly raised the siege of Corbeil, advanced with a body of troops to a position within two leagues from Tours, and sent the queen notice that he was awaiting her.  Isabel ordered her three custodians to go with her to mass at the Convent of Marmoutier, outside the city.  Scarcely was she within the church when a Burgundian captain, Hector de Saveuse, presented himself with sixty men at the door.  “Look to your safety, madame,” said her custodians to Isabel; “here is a large company of Burgundians or English.”  “Keep close to me,” replied the queen.  Hector de Saveuse at that moment entered and saluted the queen on behalf of the Duke of Burgundy.  “Where is he?” asked the queen.  “He will not be long coming.”  Isabel ordered the captain to arrest her three custodians;