[Footnote 954: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 7. _Journal du siege_, p. 76.
_Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 287. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i,
p. 72. Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 28, 30.]

[Footnote 955: "_Comme se ilz veissent Dieu descendre entre eulx_,"
says _Le journal du siege_, p. 76. Luillier (_Trial_, vol. iii, p. 24)
calls her "the angel of the Lord" (_l'ange de Dieu_).]

[Footnote 956: _Journal du siege_, pp. 76, 77.]

[Footnote 957: _Chronique de l'etablissement de la fete_, p. 28.]

Jacques or Jacquet Boucher, as he was called, had been the Duke of
Orleans' treasurer for several years. He was a very rich man and had
married the daughter of one of the most influential burgesses of the
city.[958] Having stayed in the town throughout the siege, he
contributed to the defence by gifts of wheat, oats, and wine, and by
advancing funds for the purchase of ammunition and weapons. As the
care of the ramparts fell to the burgesses, it was Jacques' duty to
keep in repair and ready for defence the Renard Gate, where he dwelt,
which was the most exposed to the English attack. His mansion, one of
the finest and largest in the town, once inhabited by Regnart or
Renard, the family which had given its name to the gate, was in the
Rue des Talmeliers, quite near the fortifications. The captains held
their councils of war there, when they did not meet at the house of
Chancellor Guillaume Cousinot in the Rue de la Rose.[959] Jacques
Boucher's dwelling was doubtless well furnished with silver plate and
storied tapestry. It would appear that in one of the rooms there was
a picture representing three women and bearing this inscription:
_Justice, Peace, Union_.[960]

[Footnote 958: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 101; vol. iii, pp. 34, 68, 124 _et
seq._, 211. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 285. Boucher de Molandon,
_Jacques Boucher, sieur de Guilleville, tresorier general du district
d'Orleans...._ in _Memoires de la Societe archeologique de
l'Orleanais_, vol. xxii, 1889, p. 373. Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere
expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 101, note xvi; proofs and
illustrations, p. 108.]

[Footnote 959: Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 73. _Chronique
de la Pucelle_, ed. Vallet de Viriville, p. 20. [Note on G. Cousinot
the Chancellor.] Cf. _Nouvelle biographie generale_. Vallet de
Viriville, _Essais critiques sur les historiens originaux du regne de
Charles VII_, in _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, 1857, fourth
series, vol. iii, pp.