La Grange-aux-Ormes, Monday, the 21st
of May, the Du Lys brothers took her, whom they held to be their
sister, to that town of Vaucouleurs[2625] whither Isabelle Romee's
daughter had gone to see Sire Robert de Baudricourt. In this town, in
the year 1436, there were still living many persons of different
conditions, such as the Leroyer couple and the Seigneur Aubert
d'Ourches,[2626] who had seen Jeanne in February, 1429.

[Footnote 2625: M. le Baron de Braux was kind enough to write to me
from Boucq near Foug, Meurthe-et-Moselle, on the 28th of June, 1896,
explaining that Bacquillon (_Trial_, vol. v, p. 322) is an erroneous
reading of one of the manuscripts of the Doyen of Saint-Thibaud. "By
comparing," he added, "the various versions (V. Quicherat and _Les
chroniques Messines_) we may ascertain that it is really Vaucouleurs,
Valquelou," mistaken for Bacquillon.]

[Footnote 2626: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 406, 408, 445, 449.]

After a week at Vaucouleurs she went to Marville, a small town between
Corny and Pont-a-Mousson. There she spent Whitsuntide and abode for
three weeks in the house of one Jean Quenat.[2627] On her departure
she was visited by sundry inhabitants of Metz, who gave her jewels,
recognising her to be the Maid of France.[2628] Jeanne, it will be
remembered, had been seen by divers knights of Metz at the time of
King Charles's coronation at Reims. At Marville, Geoffroy Desch,
following the example of Nicole Lowe, presented the so-called Jeanne
with a horse. Geoffroy Desch belonged to one of the most influential
families of the Republic of Metz. He was related to Jean Desch,
municipal secretary in 1429.[2629]

[Footnote 2627: The _Chronique de Tournai_ says of the true Jeanne
that she came from Mareville, a small town between Metz and
Pont-a-Mousson. "This Jeanne had long dwelt and served in a _metairie_
[a kind of farm] of this place."]

[Footnote 2628: _Chronique du doyen Saint-Thibaud_, in _Trial_, vol.
v, pp. 322, 324. Lecoy de la Marche, _Jeanne des Armoises_, p. 566. G.
Save, _Jehanne des Armoises, pucelle d'Orleans_, p. 14.]

[Footnote 2629: _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 352 _et seq._]

From Marville, she went on a pilgrimage to Notre Dame de Liance,
called Lienche by the Picards and known later as Notre Dame de Liesse.
At Liance was worshipped a black image of the Virgin, which, according
to tradition, had been brought by the crusaders from the Holy Land.
The chapel containing this image was situated b