y probably indicate a vapour bath[1823] not a bath
of hot water.
[Footnote 1819: _Ibid._, pp. 81, 86.]
[Footnote 1820: Lanery d'Arc and L. Jeny, _Jeanne d'Arc en Berry_, pp.
72, 73.]
[Footnote 1821: "_In balneo et stuphis._" _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 88.]
[Footnote 1822: _L'amant rendu cordelier a l'observance d'amour_; poem
attributed to Martial d'Auvergne, A. de Montaiglon, Paris, 1881, in
8vo, lines 1761-1776 and note p. 184. A. Franklin, _La vie privee
d'autrefois_, vol. ii, _Les soins de la toilette_, Paris, 1887, in
18mo, pp. 20 _et seq._ A. Lecoy de la Marche, _Le bain au moyen age_,
in _Revue du monde catholique_, vol. xiv, pp. 870-881.]
[Footnote 1823: _Livre des metiers_, by Etienne Boileau, edited by De
Lespinasse and F. Bonnardot, Paris, 1879, pp. 154, 155, and note. G.
Bayle, _Notes pour servir a l'histoire de la prostitution au moyen
age_, in _Memoires de l'Academie de Vauctuse_, 1887, pp. 241, 242. Dr.
P. Pansier, _Histoire des pretendus statuts de la reine Jeanne_, in
_Le Janus_, 1902, p. 14.]
At Bourges the sweating-rooms were in the Auron quarter, in the lower
town, near the river.[1824] Jeanne was strictly devout, but she did not
observe conventual rule; she, like chaste Suzannah therefore, might
permit herself to bathe and she must have had great need to do so
after having slept on straw.[1825] What is more remarkable is that,
after having seen Jeanne in the bath, Mistress Marguerite judged her a
virgin according to all appearances.[1826]
[Footnote 1824: Lanery d'Arc and L. Jeny, _Jeanne d'Arc en Berry_, pp.
76, 77.]
[Footnote 1825: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 100.]
[Footnote 1826: _Ibid._, p. 88.]
In Messire Regnier de Bouligny's house and likewise wherever she
lodged, she led the life of a _beguine_ but did not practise
excessive austerity. She confessed frequently. Many a time she asked
her hostess to come with her to matins. In the cathedral and in
collegiate churches there were matins every day, between four and six,
at the hour of sunset. The two women often talked together; the
Receiver General's wife found Jeanne very simple and very ignorant.
She was amazed to discover that the maiden knew absolutely
nothing.[1827]
[Footnote 1827: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 87. Lanery d'Arc and L. Jeny,
_Jeanne d'Arc en Berry_, pp. 73, 74.]
Among other matters, Jeanne told of her visit to the old Duke of
Lorraine, and how she had rebuked him for his evil life; she spoke
likewise of the interrog
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