Jacques or Jacquet Boucher, as he was called, had been the Duke of Orleans' treasurer for several years. He was a very rich man and had married the daughter of one of the most influential burgesses of the city.[958] Having stayed in the town throughout the siege, he contributed to the defence by gifts of wheat, oats, and wine, and by advancing funds for the purchase of ammunition and weapons. As the care of the ramparts fell to the burgesses, it was Jacques' duty to keep in repair and ready for defence the Renard Gate, where he dwelt, which was the most exposed to the English attack. His mansion, one of the finest and largest in the town, once inhabited by Regnart or Renard, the family which had given its name to the gate, was in the Rue des Talmeliers, quite near the fortifications. The captains held their councils of war there, when they did not meet at the house of Chancellor Guillaume Cousinot in the Rue de la Rose.[959] Jacques Boucher's dwelling was doubtless well furnished with silver plate and storied tapestry. It would appear that in one of the rooms there was a picture representing three women and bearing this inscription: _Justice, Peace, Union_.[960] [Footnote 958: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 101; vol. iii, pp. 34, 68, 124 _et seq._, 211. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p. 285. Boucher de Molandon, _Jacques Boucher, sieur de Guilleville, tresorier general du district d'Orleans...._ in _Memoires de la Societe archeologique de l'Orleanais_, vol. xxii, 1889, p. 373. Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 101, note xvi; proofs and illustrations, p. 108.] [Footnote 959: Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 73. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, ed. Vallet de Viriville, p. 20. [Note on G. Cousinot the Chancellor.] Cf. _Nouvelle biographie generale_. Vallet de Viriville, _Essais critiques sur les historiens originaux du regne de Charles VII_, in _Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes_, 1857, fourth series, vol. iii, pp. 11-14, 105-111.] [Footnote 960: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 101; vol. iii, pp. 68, 124 _et seq._; vol. iv, pp. 153, 219, 227. _Journal du siege_, pp. 77, 78. Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp. 69, 107, note xvi.] Into this house the Maid was received with her two brothers, the two comrades who had brought her to the King, and their valets. She had her armour taken off.[961] Jacques Boucher's wife and daughter passed the night with her. Jeanne shared the child's bed. She was nine years old and was called Charlotte after Duke Charles, who was her father's lord.[962] It was the custom in those days for the host to share his bed with his man guest and the hostess with her woman guest. This was the rule of courtesy; kings observed it as well as burgesses. Children were taught how to behave towards a sleeping companion, to keep to their own part of the bed, not to fidget, and to sleep with their mouths shut.[963]