twithstanding that she had the permission of her
Voices to do so.[1811] She offered her armour to the image of Our Lady
and to the precious body of Saint Denys.[1812] This armour was white,
that is to say devoid of armorial bearings.[1813] She was thus
following the custom of men-at-arms, who, after they had received a
wound, if they did not die of it, offered their armour to Our Lady and
the Saints as a token of thanksgiving. Wherefore, in those warlike
days, chapels, like that of Notre-Dame de Fierbois, often presented
the appearance of arsenals. To her armour the Maid added a sword which
she had won before Paris.[1814]

[Footnote 1810: Perceval de Cagny, p. 169. _Chronique de la Pucelle_,
pp. 335 _et seq._ Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, pp. 112 _et
seq._ Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 356. _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_,
p. 246. Berry in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 48. Gilles de Roye, p. 208.]

[Footnote 1811: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 260.]

[Footnote 1812: Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 109. Perceval de
Cagny, p. 170. Martial d'Auvergne, _Vigiles_, vol. i, p. 114. Jacques
Doublet, _Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Denys_, pp. 13, 14.]

[Footnote 1813: La Curne, at the word _Blanc_: white armour was worn by
squires, gilded armour by knights. Bouteiller, in his _Somme Rurale_,
refers to the "_harnais dore_" (gilded armour) of the knights. Cf. Du
Tillet, _Recueil des rois de France_, ch. _Des chevaliers_, p. 431. Du
Cange, _Observations sur les etablissements de la France_, p. 373.]

[Footnote 1814: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 179.]

CHAPTER IV

THE TAKING OF SAINT-PIERRE-LE-MOUSTIER--FRIAR RICHARD'S SPIRITUAL
DAUGHTERS--THE SIEGE OF LA CHARITE

The King slept at Lagny-sur-Marne on the 14th of September, then
crossed the Seine at Bray, forded the Yonne near Sens and went on
through Courtenay, Chateaurenard and Montargis. On the 21st of
September he reached Gien. There he disbanded the army he could no
longer pay, and each man went to his own home. The Duke of Alencon
withdrew into his viscounty of Beaumont-sur-Oise.[1815]

[Footnote 1815: _Journal du siege_, p. 130. Perceval de Cagny, pp. 170,
171. _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, pp. 246, 247. Berry, in
_Trial_, vol. iv, p. 79. Morosini, vol. iii, p. 219.]

Learning that the Queen was coming to meet the King, Jeanne went
before her and greeted her at Selles-en-Berry.[1816] She was afterwards
taken to Bourges, where my Lord d'Albret, half-brother of the Sire de