hen I reached the town
of Sainte-Catherine de Fierbois, I sent first to the town of
Chateau-Chinon, where my King was. I arrived there about the hour of
noon and lodged in an inn, and, after dinner, I went to my King who
was in his castle."

[Footnote 2238: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 456; vol. iii, pp. 91, 92.
Morosini, vol. iii, p. 104. Eberhard Windecke, pp. 152, 153. J.
Quicherat, _Apercus nouveaux_, pp. 131-133. Le P. Ayroles, _La vraie
Jeanne d'Arc_, vol. iv, p. 440, ch. i, _La royaute de Jesus Christ_.]

If we may believe the registrars, they never ceased wondering at her
memory. They were amazed that she should recollect exactly what she
had said a week before.[2239] Nevertheless her memory was sometimes
curiously uncertain, and we have reason for thinking with the Bastard
that she waited two days at the inn before being received by the
King.[2240]

[Footnote 2239: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 89, 142, 161, 176, 178, 201.]

[Footnote 2240: _Ibid._, p. 4.]

With regard to this audience in the castle of Chinon, she told her
judges she had recognised the King as she had recognised the Sire de
Baudricourt, by revelation.[2241]

[Footnote 2241: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 56.]

The interrogator asked her: "When the Voice revealed your King to you,
was there any light?"[2242]

[Footnote 2242: _Ibid._, p. 56.]

This question bore upon matters which were of great moment to her
judges; for they suspected the Maid of having committed a sacrilegious
fraud, or rather witchcraft, with the complicity of the King of
France. Indeed, they had learnt from their informers that Jeanne
boasted of having given the King a sign in the form of a precious
crown.[2243] The following is the actual truth of the matter:

[Footnote 2243: We find it impossible to agree with Quicherat (_Apercus
nouveaux_) and admit that Jeanne gradually invented the fable of the
crown during her examination and while her judges were questioning her
as to "the sign." The manner in which the judges conducted this part
of their examination proves that they were acquainted with the whole
of the extraordinary story.]

The legend of Saint Catherine relates that on a day she received from
the hand of an angel a resplendent crown and placed it on the head of
the Empress of the Romans. This crown was the symbol of eternal
blessedness.[2244] Jeanne, who had been brought up on this legend,
said that the same thing had happened to her. In France she had told
sundry marvellous st