I have already heard tell of him, and even to-morrow will I confess to him." The next day the good father heard her in confession, and chanted mass before her.

He became her chaplain, and never left her.[812] [Footnote 812: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

101 _et seq._] In the fifteenth century Tours was one of the chief manufacturing towns of the kingdom.

The inhabitants excelled in all kinds of trades.
They wove tissues of silk, of gold, and of silver.

They manufactured coats of mail; and, while not competing with the armourers of Milan, of Nuremberg, and of Augsburg, they were skilled in the forging and hammering of steel.[813] Here it was that, by the King's command, the master armourer made Jeanne a suit of mail.[814] The suit he furnished was of wrought iron; and, according to the custom of that time, consisted of a helmet, a cuirass in four parts, with epaulets, armlets, elbow-pieces, fore-armlets, gauntlets, cuisses, knee-pieces, greaves and shoes.[815] The maker had doubtless no thought of accentuating the feminine figure.