Besides the two ambassadors from Orleans, Messire Jamet du Tillay and the old baron Archambaud de Villars, governor of Montargis, there were present Simon Charles, Master of Requests, as well as certain great nobles, the Count of Clermont, the Sire de Gaucourt, and probably the Sire de La Tremouille and my Lord the Archbishop of Reims, Chancellor of the kingdom.[664] On hearing of Jeanne's approach, King Charles buried himself among his retainers, either because he was still mistrustful and hesitating, or because he had other persons to speak to, or for some other reason.[665] Jeanne was presented by the Count of Vendome.[666] Robust, with a firm, short neck, her figure appeared full, although confined by her man's jerkin. She wore breeches like a man,[667] but still more surprising than her hose was her head-gear and the cut of her hair. Beneath a woollen hood, her dark hair hung cut round in soup-plate fashion like a page's.[668] Women of all ranks and all ages were careful to hide their hair so that not one lock of it should escape from beneath the coif, the veil, or the high head-dress which was then the mode. Jeanne's flowing locks looked strange to the folk of those days.[669] She went straight to the King, took off her cap, curtsied, and said: "God send you long life, gentle Dauphin."[670] [Footnote 664: According to Jeanne there were present La Tremoille and the Archbishop of Reims, but she also mentions the Duke of Alencon, who was certainly not there.] [Footnote 665: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 115.] [Footnote 666: _Ibid._, pp. 102-103.] [Footnote 667: _Ibid._, p. 219. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 205. Mathieu Thomassin, _ibid._, p. 304. _Chronique de Lorraine_, _ibid._, p. 330. Philippe de Bergame, _ibid._, p. 523.] [Footnote 668: _Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, in the _Revue historique_, vol. iv, p. 336.] [Footnote 669: St. Paul, Second Epistle to the Corinthians. Labbe, _Collection des conciles_, vol. vii, p. 978. Saumaise, _Epistola ad Andream Colvium super cap. xi, I ad Corynth. de caesarie virorum et mulierum coma_. Lugd-Batavor ex off. Elz. 1644, in 12mo. _Quelques notes d'archeologie sur la chevelure feminine_, in _Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres_, 1888, vol. xvi, pp. 419, 425.] [Footnote 670: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 75; vol. iii, pp. 17, 92, 115. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 67. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 273. _Journal du siege_, p. 46.] Afterwards there were those who marvelled that she should have recognised him in the midst of nobles more magnificently dressed than he. It is possible that on that day he may have been poorly attired. We know that it was his custom to have new sleeves put to his old doublets.[671] And in any case he did not show off his clothes. Very ugly, knock-kneed, with emaciated thighs, small, odd, blinking eyes, and a large bulbous nose, on his bony, bandy legs tottered and trembled this prince of twenty-six.[672]