chaplain. And she charged him to make the following announcement to
all the men-at-arms: "Confess your sins and thank God for the victory.
If you do not, the Maid will never help you more and will not remain
in your company."[1023]

[Footnote 1023: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 106.]

The Saint-Loup bastion, attacked by fifteen hundred French, had been
defended by only three hundred English. That they made no vigorous
defence is indicated by the fact that only two or three Frenchmen were
slain.[1024] It was not by any severe mental effort or profound
calculation that the French King's men had gained this advantage. It
had cost them little, and yet it was immense. It meant the cutting off
of the besiegers' communications with Jargeau: it meant the opening of
the upper Loire: it was the first step towards the raising of the
siege. Better still, it afforded positive proof that these devils who
had inspired such fear were miserable creatures, who might be
entrapped like mice and smoked out like wasps in their nest. Such
unhoped-for good fortune was due to the Maid. She had done everything,
for without her nothing would have been done. She it was, who, in
ignorance wiser than the knowledge of captains and free-lances, had
converted an idle skirmish into a serious attack and had won the
victory by inspiring confidence.

[Footnote 1024: At the capture of the Saint-Loup bastion:

_Number of _Number of
French engaged._ French slain._

Journal du Siege 1,500
without counting nobles.
Letter of Charles VII 2
Morosini's correspondent 3,500
Eberhard Windecke 2

_Number of _Number of
English engaged._ English slain._

Brother Pasquerel 100 picked men 100 slain or taken
Jean d'Aulon all killed or taken
G. Girault 120 killed or taken
Charles VII's letter all killed or taken
_Journal du siege_ 114 killed, 40 taken
_Relation de la fete du 8 Mai_ From 120 to 140 all killed or taken
Perceval de Cagny 3,000 all killed or taken
_Chronique de la Pucelle_ 160 kill