Messire, 'the Lord

6. saint mchél, sainte Catherine et sainte ICargnerite. Thèse were the three saints that appeared to Jeanne d'Arc in her visions. St

Michael the Archangel was adopted as their patron by patriotîc Frenchmen, now that the Abbey of St Denis was in the hands of the £nglish ; and M. Siméon Luce conjectures that it was the victory gained over the English at Mont St Michel that fîxed the attention of Jeanne d'Arc on the Archangel. St Catherine had the same name as Jeanne's sister; and there was a figure of St Margaret in the church at Domremy.

lo. reprit la parole pour interroger^ *began talking again and questioned,' literally, 'resumed speech in order to question.'

BUT lui-même, * about himself.'

14. des Carmes. The Carmélites, so called from the monastery on Mount Carmel, were a religious order founded in the i2th century.

Vaaay, a small town in Champagne, east of Troyes.

16. Bornée. Isabeau or Isabelle de Vouthon, Jeanne's mother, was called Romëe because she had gone on pilgrimage to Rome, and Jeanne, as she said at her trial, was called by the same sumame.

Jeanne. The name seems to hâve been Jeannette, the diminutive. Souvestre is probably wrong in making Jeanne's father in p. 67, 3a, call her Romée, as this was a sumame.

18. les flEilsalt TiTre pauvrement, * brought them in a poor livelihood.' As a matter of fact, Jacques d'Arc seems to hâve been better off than he is represented hère ; documents hâve been discovered in which he appears as one of the principal inhabitants of Domremy.

2 1 . 8'informa, * asked. '

2^ ce qu'il avait, * what resources he had.'