[Footnote 1122: _Charles VII's Letter to the Inhabitants of Narbonne_, in _Trial_, vol. v, pp. 101, 104. Arcere, _Histoire de La Rochelle_, vol. i, p. 271 (1756). Moynes, _Inventaire des archives de l'Aude_, supplement, p. 390. _Procession d'actions de graces a Brignoles (Var) en l'honneur de la delivrance d'Orleans par Jeanne d'Arc_ (1429). Communication made to the Congress of learned Societies at the Sorbonne (April, 1893) by F. Mireur, Draguignan, 1894, in 8vo, p. 175.] In company with a few nobles she went to Blois, stayed there two days,[1123] then went on to Tours, where the King was expected.[1124] When, on the Friday before Whitsunday, she entered the town, Charles, who had set out from Chinon, had not yet arrived. Banner in hand, she rode out to meet him and when she came to him, she took off her cap and bowed her head as far as she could over her horse. The King lifted his hood, bade her look up and kissed her. It is said that he felt glad to see her, but in reality we know not what he felt.[1125] [Footnote 1123: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 80. _Journal du siege_, p. 91.] [Footnote 1124: _Ibid._, vol. iii, pp. 72, 76, 80.] [Footnote 1125: _Trial_, vol. iii, p. 116 (evidence of S. Charles). Eberhard Windecke, p. 177, and _Chronique de Tournai_, edition Smedt, pp. 407 _et seq._ (vol. iii of _Les chroniques de Flandre_).] In this month of May, 1429, he received from Messire Jacques Gelu a treatise concerning the Maid, which he probably did not read, but which his confessor read for him. Messire Jacques Gelu, sometime Councillor to the Dauphin and now my Lord Archbishop of Embrun,[1126] had at first been afraid that the King's enemies had sent him this shepherdess to poison him, or that she was a witch possessed by demons. In the beginning he had advised her being carefully interrogated, not hastily repulsed, for appearances are deceptive and divine grace moves in a mysterious manner. Now, after having read the conclusions of the doctors of Poitiers, learnt the deliverance of Orleans, and heard the cry of the common folk, Messire Jacques Gelu no longer doubted the damsel's innocence and goodness. Seeing that the doctors were divided in their opinion of her, he drew up a brief treatise, which he sent to the King, with a very ample, a very humble, and a very worthy dedicatory epistle. [Footnote 1126: _Trial_, vol. iii, pp. 394, 407; vol. v, p. 413. Le P. Marcellin Fornier, _Histoire des Alpes-Maritimes ou Cottiennes_, vol. ii, p. 320. Le P. Ayroles, _La Pucelle devant l'Eglise de son temps_, pp. 39, 52.]