Fall of Paris Prepared

1435

Negotiations at Arras had already removed Burgundy from the English alliance. Paris, isolated, was now vulnerable. Constable Richemont began gathering forces for the recapture of the French capital, which would fall the next year. The English dual monarchy's territorial hold was cracking along the Seine. Paris's isolation after Arras demonstrated that diplomacy, not battlefield victory, would determine the Hundred Years' War's final outcome.