reached and the city taken. She was placed out of reach
of the arrows in the shelter of a breast-work. There she urged the
men-at-arms to throw fagots into the water and make a bridge. About
ten or eleven o'clock in the evening, the Sire de la Tremouille
charged the combatants to retreat. The Maid would not leave the place.
She was doubtless listening to her Saints and beholding celestial
hosts around her. The Duke of Alencon sent for her. The aged Sire de
Gaucourt[1783] carried her off with the aid of a captain of Picardy,
one Guichard Bournel, who did not please her on that day, and who by
his treachery six months later, was to please her still less.[1784] Had
she not been wounded she would have resisted more strongly.[1785] She
yielded regretfully, saying: "In God's name! the city might have been
taken."[1786]

[Footnote 1783: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 298.]

[Footnote 1784: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 111, 273. Berry, in _Trial_, vol.
iv, p. 50. F. Brun, _Jeanne d Arc et le capitaine de Soissons_, pp. 31
_et seq._]

[Footnote 1785: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 57.]

[Footnote 1786: The oath "_Par mon martin_" (by my staff) is an
invention of the scribe who wrote the _Chronicle_ which is attributed
to Perceval de Cagny, p. 168.]

They put her on horseback; and thus she was able to follow the army.
The rumour ran that she had been shot in both thighs; in sooth her
wound was but slight.[1787]

[Footnote 1787: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 334. _Journal du siege_,
p. 128. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 109. Monstrelet, vol.
iv, pp. 355, 356.]

The French returned to La Chapelle, whence they had set out in the
morning. They carried their wounded on some of the carts which they
had used for the transport of fagots and ladders. In the hands of the
enemy they left three hundred hand-carts, six hundred and sixty
ladders, four thousand hurdles and large fagots, of which they had
used but a small number.[1788] Their retreat must have been somewhat
hurried, seeing that, when they came to the Barn of Les Mathurins,
near The Swine Market, they forsook their baggage and set fire to it.
With horror it was related that, like pagans of Rome, they had cast
their dead into the flames.[1789] Nevertheless the Parisians dared not
pursue them. In those days men-at-arms who knew their trade never
retreated without laying some snare for the enemy. Consequently the
King's men posted a considerable company in ambush by the roadside, to
lie in wait