During the next twenty years he was one of the most notable of the members of the French episcopate, and was particularly in favour with King Philip VI.

But this building activity, which has left one of the most notable Gothic monuments in Europe, was broken into by the Hundred Years' War.

[1] Jean de Marigny, a successful administrator and man of affairs rather than a saintly churchman, was made one of the king's lieutenants in southern France in 1341 against the English invasion.

[1] His most important military operation, however, was when in 1346 he successfully held out in Beauvais against a siege by the English, who had overrun the country up to the walls of the city.

[1] Marigny is a major character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a series of historical novels by Maurice Druon, which were adapted into two French television miniseries in 1972 and 2005.