should wear it
than the dress of a woman. Although not placed in the judicial record
of this interview, Manchon adds in his account of the proceedings on
that day, that Joan of Arc also said that she had returned to wearing
her male attire, feeling safer when in that dress than when she was
dressed in woman's clothes. This seems to us an evident avowal that
she had to resist the brutality of the men placed over her in the
dungeon. Massieu also adds to Manchon's testimony that he knew Joan
was unable to protect herself against attempts made to violate her.
Her legs were chained to the wood with which her pallet bed was
framed, and this chain was again fixed to a large beam about six feet
long, and locked with a padlock; so that the poor creature could
hardly move. To the above testimony of these two men, Isambard de la
Pierre adds his. He states that when Cauchon came to the Maid's
dungeon she bore all the traces of having undergone a violent
struggle, 'being all in tears, and so bruised and outraged
(_outragee_) that he (Isambard) could not help feeling pity for her.'

But the strongest testimony of all is that of the priest, Martin
Ladvenu, who heard her confession on the eve of her death, and he
confirms Isambard's statement entirely. He even adds that not only had
Joan of Arc to suffer from the brutality of the soldiery placed about
her, but that a _millourt d'Angleterre_ had acted as shamefully as
these men towards her.

Although Michelet and other French writers have naturally not allowed
this 'Millourt' (which, by the way, is quite as correct a form of
spelling that title as the better known 'Milor') to escape the
branding he deserves for his attempted villainy, it is but fair to add
that Isambard de la Pierre, as well as Manchon, qualify his conduct as
that not of a would-be violator, but of a tempter--a not
inconsiderable difference in the scale of infamy.

To return to Cauchon and Joan of Arc.

'But,' said the Bishop, 'are you not aware you have now no right to
wear such a dress?'

Joan answered that she had been misled into believing that if she wore
the woman's dress she would be allowed to hear Mass and to
communicate, and to be, she added, 'delivered from these chains.'

'But,' replied Cauchon, 'have you not abjured, and promised never to
take to wearing this dress again?'

'I would prefer to die,' she answered, 'than to remain on a prisoner
here. But if I were allowed to go to the Mass, and these