: Extracts from the Accounts of Hemon Raguier, _Trial_,
vol. v, pp. 257, 258.]

[Footnote 905: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 211. D'Aulon had seen her at
Poitiers.]

[Footnote 906: _Ibid._, p. 15. De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles
VII_, vol. ii, p. 292, note 3. The loans mentioned occurred later, but
there is no reason to believe that they were the first. Duc de La
Tremoille, _Les La Tremouille pendant cinq siecles, Guy VI et Georges_
(1346-1446), Nantes, 1890, pp. 196, 201.]

[Footnote 907: Juvenal des Ursins, year 1396.]

On several occasions, between 1420 and 1425, the Dauphin had forbidden
cursing and denying and blaspheming the name of God, of the Virgin
Mary and of the saints under penalty of a fine and of corporal
punishment in certain cases. The decrees embodying this prohibition
asserted that wars, pestilence, and famine were caused by blasphemy
and that the blasphemers were in part responsible for the sufferings
of the realm.[908] Wherefore the Maid went among the men-at-arms,
exhorting them to turn away the women who followed the army, and to
cease taking the Lord's name in vain. She besought them to confess
their sins and receive divine grace into their souls, maintaining that
their God would aid them and give them the victory if their souls were
right.[909]

[Footnote 908: _Ordonnances des rois de France_, vol. xi, p. 105; vol.
xiii, p. 247. S. de Bouillerie, _La repression du blaspheme dans
l'ancienne legislation_, in the _Revue historique et archeologique du
Maine_, 1884, pp. 369 _et seq._ De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles
VII_, vol. i, p. 370; vol. ii, p. 189. A. Longnon, _Paris pendant la
domination anglaise_, Paris, 1878, in 8vo, pp. 11, 56.]

[Footnote 909: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 78, 104, 105. _Chronique de la
Pucelle_, p. 283. Very early she was mentioned in connection with La
Hire, the most valiant of the French, and it was imagined that she
taught him to confess and to cease swearing. These are pretty stories
(_Trial_, vol. iii, p. 32; vol. iv, p. 327).]

Jeanne took her standard to the Church of Saint-Sauveur and gave it to
the priests to bless.[910] The little company formed at Tours was
joined at Blois by ecclesiastics and monks, who, on the approach of
the English, had fled in crowds from the neighbouring abbeys, and were
now suffering from cold and hunger. It was generally thus. Monks were
for ever flocking to the armies. Many churches and most abbeys had
been reduced to ruin. Those of the