. i (1853), pp. 250, 253. De Puymaigre,
_La fausse Jeanne d'Arc_, in _Revue nouvelle d'Alsace-Lorraine_, vol.
v (1885), pp. 533 _et seq._ A. France, _Une fausse Jeanne d'Arc_, in
_Revue des familles_, 15 February, 1891.]

At this time, Jeanne's father and eldest brother were dead.[2608]
Isabelle Romee was alive. Her two youngest sons were in the service of
the King of France, who had raised them to the rank of nobility and
given them the name of Du Lys. Jean, the eldest, called
Petit-Jean,[2609] had been appointed Bailie of Vermandois, then
Captain of Chartres. About this year, 1436, he was provost and captain
of Vaucouleurs.[2610]

[Footnote 2608: Varanius alone says that Jacques d'Arc died of sorrow
at the loss of his daughter. _Trial_, vol. v, p. 85.]

[Footnote 2609: _Ibid._, p. 280.]

[Footnote 2610: _Ibid._, pp. 279, 280. G. Lefevre-Pontalis, _La fausse
Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 6, note 1.]

The youngest, Pierre, or Pierrelot, who had fallen into the hands of
the Burgundians before Compiegne at the same time as Jeanne, had just
been liberated from the prison of the Bastard of Vergy.[2611]

[Footnote 2611: _Trial_, vol. v, p. 210. Lefevre de Saint-Remy, vol.
ii, p. 176.]

Both brothers believed that their sister had been burned at Rouen. But
when they were told that she was living and wished to see them, they
appointed a meeting at La-Grange-aux-Ormes, a village in the meadows
of the Sablon, between the Seille and the Moselle, about two and a
half miles south of Metz. They reached this place on the 20th of May.
There they saw her and recognised her immediately to be their sister;
and she recognised them to be her brothers.[2612]

[Footnote 2612: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 321, 324.]

She was accompanied by certain lords of Metz, among whom was a man
right noble, Messire Nicole Lowe, who was chamberlain to Charles
VII.[2613] By divers tokens these nobles recognised her to be the Maid
Jeanne who had taken King Charles to be crowned at Reims. These tokens
were certain signs on the skin.[2614] Now there was a prophecy
concerning Jeanne which stated her to have a little red mark beneath
the ear.[2615] But this prophecy was invented after the events to
which it referred. Consequently we may believe the Maid to have been
thus marked. Was this the token by which the nobles of Metz recognised
her?

[Footnote 2613: _Le Metz ancien_ (Metz, 1856, 2 vol. in folio) by the
Baron d'Hannoncelles, which contains the genealogy of Nico