[Footnote 435: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 54; vol. ii, pp. 438, 445, 447, 457. _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, in the _Revue historique_, vol. iv, p. 336.] She had her hair cut round like a boy.[436] Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, with their servants Jean de Honecourt and Julien, were to accompany her as well as the King's messenger, Colet de Vienne, and the bowman Richard.[437] There was still some delay and councils were held, for the soldiers of Antoine de Lorraine, Lord of Joinville, infested the country. Throughout the land there was nothing but pillage, robbery, murder, cruel tyranny, the ravishing of women, the burning of churches and abbeys, and the perpetration of horrible crimes. Those were the hardest times ever known to man.[438] But the damsel was not afraid, and said: "In God's name! take me to the gentle Dauphin, and fear not any trouble or hindrance we may meet."[439] [Footnote 436: _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, in the _Revue historique_, _ibid._] [Footnote 437: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 406, 432, 442, 457; vol. iii, p. 209. S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, pp. xcv, 143 note 3. G. de Braux and E. de Bouteiller, _Nouvelles recherches_, pp. xxix _et seq._] [Footnote 438: _Les routiers en Lorraine_, in the _Journal de la Societe archeologique de Lorraine_, 1866, p. 161. Dr. A. Lapierre, _La guerre de cent ans dans l'Argonne et le Rethelois_, Sedan, 1900, in 8vo.] [Footnote 439: _Journal du siege_ (interpolation); _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 272 (a document of doubtful authority owing to its hagiographical character).] At length, on a day in February, so it is said, the little company issued forth from Vaucouleurs by La Porte de France.[440] [Footnote 440: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 54; vol. ii, p. 437. _Chronique du Mont-Saint-Michel_, vol. i, p. 30. De Boismarmin, _Memoire sur la date de l'arrivee de Jeanne d'Arc a Chinon_, in the _Bulletin du comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques_, 1892, pp. 350-359. Ulysse Chevalier, _L'abjuration de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 10, note 1. Jeanne had returned to Vaucouleurs about the first Sunday in Lent, the 13th of February, 1429 (_Trial_, vol. iii, p. 437). Bertrand de Poulengy says that the journey to Chinon (6th March) lasted eleven days, and that sometimes they travelled by night only (_ibid._). It is difficult to admit that they started from Vaucouleurs on the 23rd of February, and that about 660 kilometres were traversed in eleven days.] A few friends who had followed her so far watched her go. Among them were her hosts, Henri Leroyer and Catherine, and Messire Jean Colin, canon of Saint-Nicolas, near Vaucouleurs, to whom Jeanne had confessed several times.[441] They trembled for their saint as they thought of the perils of the way and the length of the journey. [Footnote 441: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 431, 446.]