Baudricourt set her down for mad, and urged her uncle to take her back to her parents "with a good slap o' the face." In July, 1428, a fresh invasion of Burgundians occurred at Domremy, and redoubled the popular excitement there.

Shortly afterwards, the report touching the siege of Orleans arrived there.

Joan, more and more passionately possessed with her idea, returned to Vaucouleurs.

"I must go," said she to Sire de Baudricourt, "for to raise the siege of Orleans.
I will go, should I have to wear off my legs to the knee." She had returned to Vaucouleurs without taking leave of her parents.

"Had I possessed," said she, in 1431, to her judges at Rouen, "a hundred fathers and a hundred mothers, and had I been a king's daughter, I should have gone." Baudricourt, impressed without being convinced, did not oppose her remaining at Vaucouleurs, and sent an account of this singular young girl to Duke Charles of Lorraine, at Nancy, and perhaps even, according to some chronicles, to the king's court.