deep they launched
leather boats carried on horses' backs.[1779] The men-at-arms of the
Marechal de Rais and my Lord of Alencon were more ignorant than the
meanest adventurers. What would the doughty La Hire have thought of
them? Such gross ineptitude and ignorance appeared so incredible that
it was supposed that those fighting men knew the depth of the moat but
concealed it from the Maid, desiring her discomfiture.[1780] In such a
case, while entrapping the damsel they were themselves entrapped, for
there they stayed moving neither backwards nor forwards.

[Footnote 1779: _Le Jouvencel_, vol. i, p. 67.]

[Footnote 1780: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 333. Jean Chartier,
_Chronique_, vol. i, p. 109. _Journal du siege_, p. 127. Martial
d'Auvergne, _Vigiles_, ed. Coustelier, 1724, vol. i, p. 113.]

Certain among them idly threw fagots into the moat. Meanwhile the
defenders assailed by flights of arrows, disappeared one after the
other.[1781] But towards four o'clock in the afternoon, the citizens
arrived in crowds. The cannon of the Saint-Denys Gate thundered.
Arrows and abuse flew between those above and those below. The hours
passed, the sun was sinking. The Maid never ceased sounding the moat
with the staff of her lance and crying out to the Parisians to
surrender.

[Footnote 1781: Perceval de Cagny, p. 167. Monstrelet, vol. iv, pp.
355, 356. Morosini, vol. iii, note 3. E. Eude, _L'attaque de Jeanne
d'Arc contre Paris_, in _Cosmos_, 22 Sept., 1894, vol. xxix. P. Marin,
_Le genie militaire de Jeanne d'Arc_, in _Grande revue de Paris et de
Saint-Petersbourg_, 2nd year, vol. i, 1889, p. 142.]

"There, wanton! There, minx!" cried a Burgundian.

And planting his cross-bow in the ground with his foot, he shot an
arrow which split one of her greaves and wounded her in the thigh.
Another Burgundian took aim at the Maid's standard-bearer and wounded
him in the foot. The wounded man raised his visor to see whence the
arrow came and straightway received another between the eyes. The Maid
and the Duke of Alencon sorely regretted the loss of this
man-at-arms.[1782]

[Footnote 1782: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 57, 246. _Journal d'un bourgeois
de Paris_, p. 245. Deliberations of the Chapter of Notre Dame, _loc.
cit._ Falconbridge, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 457. Perceval de Cagny,
Jean Chartier, _Journal du siege_, Monstrelet, Morosini, _loc. cit._]

After she had been wounded, Jeanne cried all the more loudly that the
walls must be