y Lord d'Albret.[1861]

[Footnote 1861: _Trial_, vol. v, p. 146. F. Perot, _Un document inedit
sur Jeanne d'Arc_, in _Bulletin de la Societe archeologique de
l'Orleanais_, vol. xii, 1898-1901, p. 231.]

On the 9th of November, the Maid was at Moulins in Bourbonnais.[1862]
What was she doing there? No one knows. There was at that time in the
town an abbess very holy and very greatly venerated. Her name was
Colette Boilet. She had won the highest praise and incurred the
grossest insults by attempting to reform the order of Saint Clare.
Colette lived in the convent of the Sisters of Saint Clare, which she
had recently founded in this town. It has been thought that the Maid
went to Moulins on purpose to meet her.[1863] But we ought first to
ascertain whether these two saints had any liking for each other. They
both worked miracles and miracles which were occasionally somewhat
similar;[1864] but that was no reason why they should take the
slightest pleasure in each other's society. One was called _La
Pucelle_,[1865] the other _La Petite Ancelle_.[1866] But these names,
both equally humble, described persons widely different in fashion of
attire and in manner of life. _La Petite Ancelle_ wended her way on
foot, clothed in rags like a beggar-woman; _La Pucelle_, wrapped in
cloth of gold, rode forth with lords on horseback. That Jeanne,
surrounded by Franciscans who observed no rule, felt any veneration
for the reformer of the Sisters of Saint Clare, there is no reason to
believe; neither is there anything to indicate that the pacific
Colette, strongly attached to the Burgundian house,[1867] had any
desire to hold converse with one whom the English regarded as a
destroying angel.[1868]

[Footnote 1862: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 147-150. Lanery d'Arc and L. Jeny,
_Jeanne d'Arc en Berry_, ch. viii.]

[Footnote 1863: S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p. cclxxix.]

[Footnote 1864: Acta Sanctorum, March, i, 554, col. 2, no. 61. Abbe
Bizouard, _Histoire de sainte Colette_, pp. 35, 37. S[ilvere],
_Histoire chronologique de la bienheureuse Colette_, Paris, 1628, in
8vo.]

[Footnote 1865: _The Maid_ (W.S.).]

[Footnote 1866: _Servant._ Cf. Godefroy, _Lexique de l'ancien Francais_
(W.S.).]

[Footnote 1867: _Histoire chronologique de la bienheureuse Colette_,
pp. 168-200.]

[Footnote 1868: S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc et les ordres mendiants_, in
_Revue des deux mondes_, 1881, vol. xlv, p. 90. L. de Kerval, _Jeanne
d'Arc et les Francis