d.'

B.--'How could you see the light when you say it was at the side?'

To this question Joan gave no direct answer, but she said that when
she was in a wood she would hear the voices coming towards her.

'What,' next asked Beaupere, 'what did you think this voice which
manifested itself to you sounded like?'

J.--'It seemed to me a very noble voice, and I think it was sent to me
by God. When I heard it for the third time I recognised it as being
the voice of an angel.'

B.--'Could you understand it?'

J.--'It was always quite clear, and I could easily understand it.'

B.--'What advice did it give you regarding the salvation of your
soul?'

J.--'It told me to conduct myself well, and to attend the services of
the Church regularly; and it told me that it was necessary that I
should go to France.'

B.--'In what manner of form did the voice appear?'

J.--'As to that I will give you no answer.'

B.--'Did that voice solicit you often?'

J.--'It said to me two or three times a week, "Leave your village and
go to France."'

B.--'Did your father know of your departure?'

J.--'He knew nothing about it. The voice said, "Go to France," so I
could not remain at home any longer.'

B.--'What else did it say to you?'

J.--'It told me that I should raise the siege of Orleans.'

B.--'Was that all?'

J.--'The same voice told me to go to Vaucouleurs, to Robert de
Baudricourt, captain of that place, and that he would give me soldiers
to accompany me on my journey; and I answered it, that I was a poor
girl who did not know how to ride, neither how to fight.'

B.--'What did you do then?'

J.--'I went to my uncle, and told him that I wished to remain with him
for some time, and I lived with him eight days. I then told him that I
must go to Vaucouleurs, and he took me there. When I arrived there I
recognised Robert de Baudricourt, although it was the first time that
I saw him.'

B.--'How, then, did you recognise him?'

J.--'I knew him through my voices. They said to me, "This is the man,"
and I said to him, "I must go to France." Twice he refused to listen
to me. The third time he received me. The voices had told me this
would happen.'

B.--'Had you not some business with the Duke of Lorraine?'

J.--'The Duke ordered that I should be brought to him. I went and said
to him, "I must go to France." The Duke asked me how he should recover
his health. I told him I knew nothing about that.'

B.--'Did you speak much