But the people of Poitou had named the stone "the Maid's mounting stone." With what a glad eager step the Saint must have leapt from that stone on to the horse which was to carry her away from those furred cats to the afflicted and oppressed whom she was longing to succour.[798] [Footnote 797: Jean Bouchet, _Annales d'Aquitaine_, in the _Trial_, vol.iv, pp.

536, 537.] [Footnote 798: Guilbert, _Histoire des villes de France_, vol.iv, Poitiers.Cf.

B.Ledain, _La Maison de Jeanne d'Arc a Poitiers_, Saint-Maixent, 1892, in 8vo.

According to M.Ledain the Hotel de la Rose was on the spot now occupied by a house, number 13 in La Rue Notre-Dame-la-Petite.].