 Rumors about Isabeau 's promiscuity flourished , which Adams attributes to English propaganda intended to secure England 's grasp on the throne . An allegorical pamphlet , called Pastorelet , was published in the mid @-@ 1420s painting Isabeau and Orleans as lovers . During the same period Isabeau was contrasted with Joan of Arc , considered virginally pure , in the allegedly popular saying " Even as France had been lost by a woman it would be saved by a woman " . Adams writes that Joan of Arc has been attributed with the words " France , having been lost by a woman , would be restored by a virgin " , but neither saying can be substantiated by contemporary documentation or chronicles . 
