“This crown, did it smell well and had it a good odour? did it glitter?” “I do not remember about it; I will think it over.” [Remembering:] “Yes, it smelt good, and will smell good always, if it be well guarded, as it should be. It was in the form of a crown.” “Did the Angel write you a letter?” “No.” “What sign had your King and the people who were with him and yourself, to believe that it was an Angel?” “The King believed it by the teaching of the Clergy who were there, and by the sign of the crown.” “But how did the Clergy know it was an Angel?” “By their knowledge and because they were clerks.” “What have you to say about a married priest and a lost cup that you were to have pointed out?”[73] “Of all this I know nothing, nor have I ever heard of it.” “When you came before Paris, had you revelations from your Voices to go there?” “No, I went at the request of the gentlemen who wished to make an attack or assault-at-arms; I intended to go there and break through the trenches.” “Had you any revelation to attack La Charité?” “No, I went there at the request of the men-at-arms, as I said elsewhere.” “Did you have any revelation to go to Pont l’Evêque?”[74] “After I had had, in the trenches of Melun,[75] revelation that I should be taken, I consulted more often with the Captains of the army; but I did not tell them I had had any revelation that I should be taken.” “Was it well to attack the town of Paris on the day of the Festival of the Nativity of Our Lady?” “It is well done to observe the Festival of the Blessed Mary, and on my conscience it seems to me that it was, and ever will be, well to observe these festivals, from one end to the other.” “Did you not say before Paris, ‘Surrender this town by order of Jesus’?” “No, but I said, ‘Surrender it to the King of France.’” _Wednesday, March 14th.—Jean Delafontaine, Commissary, assisted by Nicolas Midi and Gerard Feuillet. Witnesses: Nicolas de Houbent and Ysambard de la Pierre._ Jeanne was interrogated as follows: “Why did you throw yourself from the top of the Tower at Beaurevoir?” “I had heard that the people of Compiègne, all, to the age of seven years, were to be put to fire and sword; and I would rather have died than live after such a destruction of good people. That was one of the reasons. The other was that I knew I was sold to the English; and I had rather die than be in the hands of my enemies, the English.” “Did your Saints counsel you about it?” “Saint Catherine told me almost every day not to leap, that God would help me, and also those at Compiègne. I said to Saint Catherine: ‘Since God will help those at Compiègne, I wish to be there.’ Saint Catherine said to me, ‘Be resigned, and do not falter: you will not be delivered before seeing the King of England.’ I answered her: ‘Truly I do not wish to see him; I would rather die than fall into the hands of the English.’”