ied Saint-Denys, the three porches,
the embattled parapets, the tower of the Abbey Church, erected by the
Abbot Suger, were already three centuries old. There were buried the
kings of France; and thither they came to take the _oriflamme_.
Fourteen years earlier the late King Charles had fetched it forth, but
since then none had borne it.[1709]

[Footnote 1709: J. Doublet, _Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Denys_, vol.
i, ch. xxxi, xxxiv.]

Many were the wonders told touching this royal standard. And with some
of those marvels the Maid must needs have been acquainted, since on
her coming into France, she was said to have given the Dauphin Charles
the surname of _oriflamme_,[1710] as a pledge and promise of
victory.[1711] At Saint-Denys was preserved the heart of the Constable
Du Guesclin.[1712] Jeanne had heard of his high renown; she had
proffered wine to Madame de Laval's eldest son; and to his
grandmother, who had been Sire Bertrand's second wife, she had sent a
little ring of gold, out of respect for the widow of so valiant a
man,[1713] asking her to forgive the poverty of the gift.

[Footnote 1710: Cf. vol. i, p. 182 (W.S.).]

[Footnote 1711: Thomassin, _Registre Delphinal_, in _Trial_, vol. iv,
p. 304. See Du Cange, _Glossaire_ under the word _Auriflamme_.]

[Footnote 1712: J. Doublet, _Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Denys_, vol.
i, ch. xxii. D. Michel Felibien, _Histoire de l'abbaye royale de
Saint-Denys en France_, Paris, in folio, 1706, pp. 229, 320. Vallet de
Viriville, _Notice du manuscrit de P. Cochon_, at the end of _La
chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 360. _Chronique de Du Guesclin_, ed.
Francisque-Michel, pp. 452 _et seq._]

[Footnote 1713: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 107, 109.]

The monks of Saint-Denys preserved precious relics, notably a piece of
the wood of the true cross, the linen in which the Child Jesus had
been wrapped, a fragment of the pitcher wherein the water had been
changed to wine at the Cana marriage feast, a bar of Saint Lawrence's
gridiron, the chin of Saint Mary Magdalen, a cup of tamarisk wood used
by Saint Louis as a charm against the spleen. There likewise was to be
seen the head of Saint Denys. True, at the same time one was being
shown in the Cathedral church of Paris. The Chancellor, Jean Gerson,
treating of Jeanne the Maid, a few days before his death, wrote that
of her it might be said as of the head of Saint Denys, that belief in
her was a matter of edification and not of faith, albei