[Footnote 155: Probably before Jeanne's birth. "My surname is d'Arc or Romee," said Jeanne (_Trial_, vol. i, p. 191). Thus she indiscriminately assumes either her father's or her mother's surname, although she says (_Trial_, vol. i, p. 191) that in her country girls are called by their mother's surname.] [Footnote 156: _Trial_, vol. v, p. 252. E. de Bouteiller and G. de Braux, _Nouvelles recherches sur la famille de Jeanne d'Arc_, Paris, 1879, pp. 3-20. Ch. du Lys, _Traite sommaire tant du nom et des armes que de la naissance et parente de la Pucelle d'Orleans et de ses freres_, ed. Vallet de Viriville, Paris, 1857, p. 28. E. Georges, _Jeanne d'Arc consideree au point de vue Franco-Champenois_, Troyes, 1893, in 8vo, p. 101.] [Footnote 157: The order of the births of Jacques d'Arc's children is extremely doubtful (_Trial_, index, under the word _Arc_).] Jacques d'Arc's house was on the verge of the precincts of the parish church, dedicated to Saint Remi, the apostle of Gaul.[158] There was only the graveyard to cross when the child was carried to the font. It is said that in those days and in that country the form of exorcism pronounced by the priest during the baptismal ceremony was much longer for girls than for boys.[159] We do not know whether Messire Jean Minet,[160] the parish priest, pronounced it over the child in all its literal fulness, but we notice the custom as one of the numerous signs of the Church's invincible mistrust of woman. [Footnote 158: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 393, _passim_. S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, vol. xvi, p. 357.] [Footnote 159: A. Monteil, _Histoire des Francais_, 1853, in 18mo, vol. ii, p. 194.] [Footnote 160: _Trial_, vol. i, p. 46. Jean Minet was a native of Neufchateau.]