The loans mentioned occurred later, but there is no reason to believe that they were the first.

Duc de La Tremoille, _Les La Tremouille pendant cinq siecles, Guy VI et Georges_ (1346-1446), Nantes, 1890, pp.

196, 201.] [Footnote 907: Juvenal des Ursins, year 1396.] On several occasions, between 1420 and 1425, the Dauphin had forbidden cursing and denying and blaspheming the name of God, of the Virgin Mary and of the saints under penalty of a fine and of corporal punishment in certain cases.

The decrees embodying this prohibition asserted that wars, pestilence, and famine were caused by blasphemy and that the blasphemers were in part responsible for the sufferings of the realm.[908] Wherefore the Maid went among the men-at-arms, exhorting them to turn away the women who followed the army, and to cease taking the Lord's name in vain.

She besought them to confess their sins and receive divine grace into their souls, maintaining that their God would aid them and give them the victory if their souls were right.[909] [Footnote 908: _Ordonnances des rois de France_, vol.xi, p.