A few moments after he had dismissed her, he assembled the Sire de Gaucourt and certain other members of his Council and repeated to them what he had just heard: "She told me that God had sent her to aid me to recover my kingdom."[679] He did not add that she had revealed to him a secret known to himself alone.[680] [Footnote 679: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 17, 209. As early as April the promised deliverance of Orleans and coronation at Reims had been heard of at Lyons (_Trial_, vol. iv, p. 426).] [Footnote 680: Pasquerel alone of the witnesses mentions this (_Trial_, vol. iii, p. 103). Cf. the anecdote of the Sire de Boissy related by P. Sala in his collection, _Les hardiesses des grands rois et empereurs_ (_Trial_, vol. iv, p. 278).] The King's Counsellors, knowing little of the damsel, decided that they must have her before them to examine her concerning her life and her belief.[681] [Footnote 681: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 209.] The Sire de Gaucourt took her from the inn and lodged her in a tower of that Castle of Coudray, which for the last three days she had seen dominating the town.[682] One of the three castles, Le Coudray was only separated from the middle chateau in which the King dwelt by a moat and fortifications.[683] The Sire de Gaucourt confided her to the care of the lieutenant of the Town of Chinon, Guillaume Bellier, the King's Major Domo.[684] He gave her for her servant one of his own pages, a child of fifteen, Immerguet, sometimes called Minguet, and sometimes Mugot. His real name was Louis de Coutes, and he came of an old warrior family which had been in the service of the house of Orleans for a century. His father, Jean, called Minguet, Lord of Fresnay-le-Gelmert, of la Gadeliere and of Mitry, Chamberlain to the Duke of Orleans, had died in great poverty the year before. He had left a widow and five children, three boys and two girls, one of whom, Jeanne by name, had since 1421 been the wife of Messire Florentin d'Illiers, Governor of Chateaudun. Thus the little page, Louis de Coutes, and his mother, Catherine le Mercier, Dame de Noviant, who came of a noble Scottish family, were both in a state of penury, albeit the Duke of Orleans in acknowledgment of his Chamberlain's faithful services had from his purse granted aid to the Lady of Noviant.[685] Jeanne kept Minguet with her all day, but at night she slept with the women. [Footnote 682: _Ibid._, p. 66.] [Footnote 683: G. de Cougny, _Charles VII et Jeanne d'Arc a Chinon_, Tours, 1877, p. 40.] [Footnote 684: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 17.] [Footnote 685: _Ibid._, pp. 65, 73. Mademoiselle A. de Villaret, _Louis de Coutes, page de Jeanne d'Arc_, Orleans, 1890, in 8vo.] The wife of Guillaume Bellier, who was good and pious, at least so it was said, watched over her.[686] At Coudray the page saw her many a time on her knees. She prayed and often wept many tears.[687] For several days persons of high estate came to speak with her. They found her dressed as a boy.[688]