she received the body of Our Lord very
devoutly. Then to God, to the Virgin Mary and to the saints she
offered prayers beautiful and reverent and gave such signs of
repentance that those present were moved to tears.[2546]

[Footnote 2546: _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 19, 308, 320; vol. iii, pp. 114,
158, 183, 197.]

Contrite and sorrowful she said to Maitre Pierre Maurice:[2547] "Maitre
Pierre, where shall I be this evening?"

[Footnote 2547: For Jeanne's communion see also De Beaurepaire,
_Recherches sur le proces_, pp. 116-117.]

"Do you not trust in the Lord?" asked the canon.

"Yea, God helping me, I shall be in Paradise."[2548]

[Footnote 2548: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 191.]

Maitre Nicolas Loiseleur exhorted her to correct the error she had
caused to grow up among the people.

"To this end you must openly declare that you have been deceived and
have deceived the folk and that you humbly ask pardon."

Then, fearing lest she might forget when the time came for her to be
publicly judged, she asked Brother Martin to put her in mind of this
matter and of others touching her salvation.[2549]

[Footnote 2549: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 485. Maitre N. Taquel would lead us
to believe that the interrogatories took place after Jeanne's
communion, but this can hardly be admitted.]

Maitre Loiseleur went away giving signs of violent grief. Walking
through the streets like a madman, he was howled at by the
_Godons_.[2550]

[Footnote 2550: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 320; vol. iii, p. 162.]

It was about nine o'clock in the morning when Brother Martin and
Messire Massieu took Jeanne out of the prison, wherein she had been in
bonds one hundred and seventy-eight days. She was placed in a cart,
and, escorted by eighty men-at-arms, was driven along the narrow
streets to the Old Market Square, close to the River.[2551] This square
was bordered on the east by a wooden market-house, the butcher's
market, on the west by the cemetery of Saint-Sauveur, on the edge of
which, towards the square, stood the church of Saint-Sauveur.[2552] In
this place three scaffolds had been raised, one against the northern
gable of the market-house; and in its erection several tiles of the
roof had been broken.[2553] On this scaffold Jeanne was to be
stationed, there to listen to the sermon. Another and a larger
scaffold had been erected adjoining the cemetery. There the judges and
the prelates were to sit.[2554] The pronouncing of sentence in a
religious trial wa