should be given
me, and the clergy sent me it. It lay underground--I am not certain
whether at the front or at the back of the altar. It was cleaned by
the people belonging to the church. They had a scabbard made for me;
also one was made at Tours--one of velvet, the other of black cloth. I
had also a third one for the Fierbois sword made of very strong
leather.'

'Were you wearing that sword,' asked Beaupere, 'when you were
captured?'

'No, I had not one then; I used to wear it constantly up to the time
that I left Saint Denis, after the assault on Paris.'

'What benediction did you bestow on that sword?'

'None,' said Joan; and she added, on being questioned as to her
feeling about the sword, that she had a particular liking for it, from
its having been found in the Church of Sainte Catherine, her favourite
saint.

Then Beaupere inquired whether Joan was not in the habit of placing
this sword on the altar, in order to bring it good luck.

Joan answered in the negative.

'But then,' the priest asked, 'had she not prayed that it might bring
her good fortune?'

'It is enough to know,' answered Joan, 'that I wished my armour might
bring me good fortune.'

'What had become of the Fierbois sword?' asked the priest.

'I offered up at Saint Denis,' answered Joan, 'a sword and some
armour, but not the Fierbois sword.'

'Had you it when at Lagny?' asked Beaupere.

'Yes,' answered the prisoner.

But between the time passed at Lagny and Compiegne she wore another
sword, taken from a Burgundian soldier, which she said was a good
weapon, able to deal shrewd blows. But she would not satisfy
Beaupere's curiosity as to what had become of the sword of Fierbois:
'That,' she said, 'has nothing to do with the trial.'

Beaupere next inquired as to what had become of Joan of Arc's goods.

She said her brother had her horses and her goods; she said she
believed the latter amounted to some twelve thousand _ecus_.

'Had you not,' asked the priest, 'when you went to Orleans, a banner
or pennon? Of what colour was that?'

'My banner had a field all covered with _fleurs-de-lis_. In it was
represented the world, with angels on either side. It was white, made
of white cloth, of a kind called _coucassin_. On it was written _Jesu
Maria_. It was bordered with silk.'

'Which were you fondest of?' asked Beaupere,--'your banner or your
sword?'

'I loved my banner,' was the answer, 'forty times as much as I did my
sword.'

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