On the reverse of her standard, sprinkled by mendicants with holy water, she had had a dove painted, holding in its beak a scroll, whereon were written the words "in the name of the King of Heaven."[1176] These were the armorial bearings she had received from her Council. The emblem and the device seemed appropriate to her, since she proclaimed that God had sent her, and since at Orleans she had given the sign promised at Poitiers. The King, notwithstanding, changed this shield for arms representing a crown supported upon a sword between two flowers-de-luce and indicating clearly what was the aid that the Maid of God was bringing to the realm of France. It is said that she regretted having to abandon the arms communicated to her by divine revelation.[1177] [Footnote 1176: _Ibid._, vol. i, pp. 78, 117, 182.] [Footnote 1177: _Ibid._, pp. 117, 300; vol. v, p. 227.] She prophesied, and, as happens to all prophets, she did not always foretell what was to come to pass. It was the fate of the prophet Jonah himself. And doctors explain how the prophecies of true prophets cannot be all fulfilled. She had said: "Before Saint John the Baptist's Day, in 1429, there shall not be one Englishman, howsoever strong and valiant, to be seen throughout France, either in battle or in the open field."[1178] [Footnote 1178: Letter written from Germany, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 351. Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 33, 46, 62.] The nativity of Saint John the Baptist is celebrated on the 24th of June. CHAPTER XV THE TAKING OF JARGEAU--THE BRIDGE OF MEUNG--BEAUGENCY On Monday, the 6th of June, the King lodged at Saint-Aignan near Selles-en-Berry.[1179] Among the gentlemen of his company were two sons of that Dame de Laval who, in her widowhood, had made the mistake of loving a landless cadet. Andre, the younger, at the age of twenty, had just passed under the cloud of a disgrace common to nearly all nobles in those days; his grandmother's second husband, Sire Bertrand Du Guesclin, had experienced it several times. Taken prisoner in the chateau of Laval by Sir John Talbot, he had incurred a heavy debt in order to furnish the sixteen thousand golden crowns of his ransom.[1180] [Footnote 1179: Letter from Gui and Andre de Laval to the Ladies de Laval, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 106. L. Jeny and Lanery d'Arc, _Jeanne D'Arc en Berry_, Paris, 1892, in 8vo, p. 54.] [Footnote 1180: Bertrand de Broussillon, _La maison de Laval_, vol. iii, p. 21.]