t in both
places alike the head ought to be worshipped in order that edification
should not be turned into scandal.[1714]

[Footnote 1714: D. M. Felibien, _op. cit._, ch. ii, pp. 528 _et seq._
Illustrations. J. Doublet, _op. cit._, vol. i, ch. xliii, xlvi.
_Trial_, vol. iii, p. 301. _Gallia Christiana_, vol. vii, col. 142.]

In this abbey everything proclaimed the dignity, the prerogatives and
the high worship of the house of France. Jeanne must joyously have
wondered at the insignia, the symbols and signs of the royalty of the
Lilies gathered together in this spot,[1715] if indeed those eyes,
occupied with celestial visions, had leisure to perceive the things of
earth, and if her Voices, endlessly whispering in her ear, left her
one moment's respite.

[Footnote 1715: _Religieux de Saint-Denis_, pp. 154, 156, 226.]

Saint Denys was a great saint, since there was no doubt of his being
in very deed the Areopagite himself.[1716] But since he had permitted
his abbey to be taken he was no longer invoked as the patron saint of
the Kings of France. The Dauphin's followers had replaced him by the
Blessed Archangel Michael, whose abbey, near the city of Avranches,
had victoriously held out against the English. It was Saint Michael
not Saint Denys who had appeared to Jeanne in the garden at Domremy;
but she knew that Saint Denys was the war cry of France.[1717]

[Footnote 1716: Estienne Binet, _La vie apostolique de saint Denys
l'Areopagite, patron et apostre de la France_, Paris, 1624, in 12mo.
J. Doublet, _Histoire chronologique pour la verite de Saint Denys
l'Areopagite, apotre de France et premier eveque de Paris_, Paris,
1646, in 4to, and _Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Denys en France_, p.
95. J. Havet, _Les origines de Saint-Denis_, in _Les Questions
merovingiennes_.]

[Footnote 1717: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 179.]

The monks of that rich abbey wasted by war lived there in poverty and
in disorder.[1718] Armagnacs and Burgundians in turn descended upon the
neighbouring fields and villages, plundering and ravaging, leaving
nought that it was possible to carry off. At Saint-Denys was held the
Fair of Le Lendit, one of the greatest in Christendom. But now
Merchants had ceased to attend it. At the Lendit of 1418, there were
but three booths, and those for the selling of shoes from Brabant, in
the high street of Saint-Denys, near the Convent of Les Filles-Dieu.
Since 1426, there had been no fair at all.[1719]

[Footnote 1718