[Footnote 635: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 273. _Journal du siege_, pp. 46, 47.] [Footnote 636: _Epitre de Jouvenel des Ursins_, in De Beaucourt, _Histoire de Charles VII_ vol. v, p. 206, note 1.] [Footnote 637: Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. ii, p. x.] [Footnote 638: _Acta sanctorum_, vol. iii, March, p. 742. Abbe Petin, _Dictionnaire hagiographique_, 1850, vol. ii, p. 1516.] [Footnote 639: Froissart, _Chroniques_, Bk. IV, ch. xliii _et seq._] [Footnote 640: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 83, note 2. Vallet de Viriville, _Proces de condamnation de Jeanne d'Arc_, Paris, 1867, in 8vo, pp. xxxi _et seq._] [Footnote 641: _Le songe du vieil Pelerin_, by Philippe de Maizieres (Bibl. Nat. French collection, no. 22,542).] [Footnote 642: Chastellain, ed. Buchon, pp. 114, 116. _Acta Sanctorum Junii_, vol. 1, p. 648. Le P. De Buck, _Le bienheureux Jean de Gand_, Brussels, 1862, in 8vo, 40 pages. Le P. Chapotin, _La guerre de cent ans; Jeanne d'Arc et les Dominicains_, Evreux, 1888, in 8vo, p. 89.] King Charles read the Commander of Vaucouleur's letters, and had the damsel's escort examined before him. Of her mission and her miracles they could say nothing. But they spoke of the good they had seen in her during the journey, and affirmed that there was no evil in her.[643] [Footnote 643: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 273. _Journal du siege_, p. 46.] Of a truth, God speaketh through the mouths of virgins. But in such matters it is necessary to act with extreme caution, to distinguish carefully between the true prophetesses and the false, not to take for messengers from heaven the heralds of the devil. The latter sometimes create illusions. Following the example of Simon the Magician, who worked wonders vying with the miracles of St. Peter, these creatures have recourse to diabolical arts for the seduction of men. Twelve years before, there had prophesied a woman, likewise from the Lorraine Marches, Catherine Suave, a native of Thons near Neufchateau, who lived as a recluse at Port de Lates, yet most certainly did the Bishop of Maguelonne know her to be a liar and a sorceress, wherefore she was burned alive at Montpellier in 1417.[644] Multitudes of women, or rather of females, _mulierculae_,[645] lived like this Catherine and ended like her. [Footnote 644: _Parvus Thalamus_, ed. Archaeological Society of Montpellier, p. 464. Th. de Beze, _Histoire ecclesiastique_, 1580, vol. i, p. 217. A. Germain, _Catherine Suave_, Montpellier, 1853, in 4to, 16 pages. H.C. Lea, _A History of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages_ (1906), vol. ii, p. 157. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. ii, p. x.] [Footnote 645: Jean Nider, _Formicarium_, in the _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 502.]