o hundred golden
_saluts_[1758] they sold the body of Saint Denys; but they kept the
foot, which was of silver, the head and the crown.[1759]

[Footnote 1758: Cf. _ante_, p. 45, note 2 (W.S.).]

[Footnote 1759: Register of the Deliberations of the Chapter of Notre
Dame (Arch. Nat., LL, 716, pp. 173, 174), in _Le journal d'un
bourgeois de Paris_, _loc. cit._ Le P. Ayroles, _La vraie Jeanne
d'Arc_, vol. iii, pp. 530, 531, proofs and illustrations, J, p. 639.
Le P. Denifle and Chatelain, _Le proces de Jeanne d'Arc et
l'universite de Paris_, Nogent-le-Rotrou, 1898, in 8vo.]

On Wednesday, the 7th of September, the Eve of the Virgin's Nativity,
there was a procession to Sainte-Genevieve-du-Mont with the object of
counteracting the evil of the times and allaying the animosity of the
enemy. In it walked the canons of the Palace, bearing the True
Cross.[1760]

[Footnote 1760: Register of the Deliberations of the Chapter of Notre
Dame, in Tuetey, notes to _Le Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p.
241, note 1. Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 456. Le P. Ayroles,
_La vraie Jeanne d'Arc_, vol. iii, proofs and illustrations, p. 640.]

That very day the army of the Duke of Alencon and of the Maid was
skirmishing beneath the walls. It retreated in the evening; and on
that night the townsfolk slept in peace, for on the morrow Christians
celebrated the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin.[1761]

[Footnote 1761: Register of the Deliberations of the Chapter of Notre
Dame, _loc. cit._ _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 332. _Journal d'un
bourgeois de Paris_, p. 244. Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 354. Martial
d'Auvergne, _Vigiles_, ed. Coustelier, vol. i, p. 113. Perceval de
Cagny, p. 166. _Chronique des cordeliers_, folio, 486 verso. Le P.
Ayroles, _La vrai Jeanne d'Arc_, vol. iii, p. 531.]

It was a great festival and a very ancient one. Its origin is
described in the following manner. There was a certain holy man, who
passed his life in meditation. On a day he called to mind that for
many years, on the 8th of September, he had heard marvellous angelic
music in the air, and he prayed to God to reveal to him the reason for
this concert of instruments and of celestial voices. He was vouchsafed
the answer that it was the anniversary of the birth of the glorious
Virgin Mary; and he received the command to instruct the faithful in
order that they on that solemn day might join their voices to the
angelic chorus. The matter was reported to the Sover