la Tremouille, lodged her with Messire Regnier de Bouligny. Regnier
was then Receiver General. He had been one of those whose dismissal
the University had requested in 1408, as being worse than useless,
for they held him responsible for many of the disorders in the
kingdom. He had entered the Dauphin's service, passed from the
administration of the royal domain to that of taxes and attained the
highest rank in the control of the finances.[1817] His wife, who had
accompanied the Queen to Selles, beheld the Maid and wondered. Jeanne
seemed to her a creature sent by God for the relief of the King and
those of France who were loyal to him. She remembered the days not so
very long ago when she had seen the Dauphin and her Husband not
knowing where to turn for money. Her name was Marguerite La Touroulde;
she was damiselle, not dame; a comfortable _bourgeoise_ and that was
all.[1818]

[Footnote 1816: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 86. De Beaucourt, _Histoire de
Charles VII_, vol. ii, p. 265. P. Lanery d'Arc and L. Jeny, _Jeanne
d'Arc en Berry, avec des documents et des eclaircissements inedits_,
Paris, 1892, in 12mo, chap. vi.]

[Footnote 1817: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 85, note 1. De Beaucourt,
_Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. i, p. 418, note 7.]

[Footnote 1818: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 85.]

Three weeks Jeanne sojourned in the Receiver General's house. She
slept there, drank there, ate there. Nearly every night, Damiselle
Marguerite La Touroulde slept with her; the etiquette of those days
required it. No night-gowns were worn; folk slept naked in those vast
beds. It would seem that Jeanne disliked sleeping with old women.[1819]
Damiselle La Touroulde, although not so very old, was of matronly
age;[1820] she had moreover a matron's experience, and further she
claimed, as we shall see directly, to know more than most matrons
knew. Several times she took Jeanne to the bath and to the
sweating-room.[1821] That also was one of the rules of etiquette; a
host was not considered to be making his guests good cheer unless he
took them to the bath. In this point of courtesy princes set an
example; when the King and Queen supped in the house of one of their
retainers or ministers, fine baths richly ornamented were prepared for
them before they came to table.[1822] Mistress Marguerite doubtless did
not possess what was necessary in her own house; wherefore she took
Jeanne out to the bath and the sweating-room. Such are her own
expressions; and the