brace them without feeling and touching
them."[2757]

[Footnote 2757: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 186.]

Because they thus appeal to the senses and seem to possess a certain
material reality, hysterical hallucinations make a profound and
ineffaceable impression on those who experience them. The subjects
speak of them as being actual and very striking facts. When they
become accusers, as so many women do who claim to have been the
victims of imaginary assaults, they support their assertions in the
most energetic fashion.

Not only does Jeanne see, hear, smell and touch her saints, she joins
the procession of angels they bring in their train. With them she
performs actual deeds, as if there were perfect unity between her life
and her hallucinations.

"I was in my lodging, in the house of a good woman, near the _chateau_
of Chinon, when the angel came. And then he and I went together to the
King."

_Q._ "Was this angel alone?"

_A._ "This angel was with a goodly company of other angels.[2758]
They were with him, but not every one saw them.... Some were very much
alike; others were not, or at any rate not as I saw them. Some had
wings. Certain even wore crowns, and in their company were Saint
Catherine and Saint Margaret. With the angel aforesaid and with the
other angels they went right into the King's chamber."

[Footnote 2758: According to the evidence of Maitre Pierre Maurice, at
the condemnation trial (vol. i. p. 480), Jeanne must have seen the
angels "in the form of certain infinitesimal things" (_sub specie
quarumdam rerum minimarum_). This was also the character of the
hallucinations experienced by Saint Rose of Lima ("Vie de Sainte Rose
de Lima," by P. Leonard Hansen, p. 179).]

_Q._ "Tell us how the angel left you."

_A._ "He left me in a little chapel, and at his departure I was very
sorrowful, and I even wept. Willingly would I have gone away with him;
I mean my soul would have gone."[2759]

[Footnote 2759: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 144.]

In all these hallucinations there is the same objective clearness, the
same subjective certitude as in toxic hallucinations; and this
clearness, this certitude, may in Jeanne's case suggest hysteria.

But if in certain respects Jeanne resembles hysterical subjects, in
others she differs from them. She seems early to have acquired an
independence of her visions and an authority over them.

Without ever doubting their reality, she resists them and sometimes
disobeys them, wh