rst of these is Joan, wife of
Gilles de Saint-Mesmin, aged seventy. She says: 'The general opinion
was and is still at Orleans that Joan was a good Catholic--simple,
humble, and of a holy life.' Such, too, is the opinion of Joan, the
wife of Guy Boyleau, and of Guillemette, wife of John de Coulon; also
of the widow of John de Mouchy. All these agree with the first lady's
testimony.

We have next the evidence of the daughter of James Boucher, the
treasurer of Orleans, at whose house Joan of Arc lodged while in
Orleans. Charlotte Boucher had married William Houet. When her
deposition was taken in 1456 she was thirty-six years old, and
consequently only nine when Joan lodged at her father's house.
However, young as she was then, the visit of the Maid had left a great
memory behind; she had been Joan's bed-fellow.

'Often,' she says, 'Joan said to my mother, "Hope in God, for He will
deliver the town of Orleans, and drive the enemy away."'

And last we find the evidence of two good wives of Orleans, one widow
of John Hure, the other Petronille, wife of Beaucharnys. After these
came six clerics, canons of the Church of Saint Aignan at
Orleans--Robert de Farciaux, Peter Compaing, Peter de la Censurey,
Raoul Godert, Herve Bonart, and Andre Bordez. Peter Milet and his
wife, Colette, were also witnesses. All had known Joan when she was at
Orleans, as had Aignan Viole, an advocate of Parliament, who had been
in Orleans during the siege.

The 'noble homme Guillaume de Richarville, panetier de la cour,' gave
his evidence, relating to Joan of Arc's appearance at Court, as also
did an old Court physician named Reginald Thierry; it is he who
relates how, at the capture of Saint Pierre-le-Moutier, Joan prevented
its church from being pillaged.

A doughty warrior follows, namely, 'noble et prudent Seigneur le
chevalier Thibauld d'Armagnac, Sire de Thermes, Bailli de Chartres.'
D'Armagnac was fifty years old; he had followed Joan of Arc all
through her campaign, and, like Alencon, had a very high opinion of
her military talents. At the close of his evidence, he says: 'In the
manner of the conduct and ordering of troops, in that of placing them
in battle array, and of animating the men, Joan of Arc had as much
capacity for these things as the most accomplished captain in the art
of war.'

After the soldier, the peasant. This peasant, or rather mechanic, is
a coppersmith named Husson Lemaitre. Lemaitre hailed from Domremy.
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