THE MAID AT ORLEANS On the evening of Thursday, the 28th of April, Jeanne was able to discern from the heights of Olivet the belfries of the town, the towers of Saint-Paul and Saint-Pierre-Empont, whence the watchmen announced her approach.

The army descended the slopes towards the Loire and stopped at the Bouchet wharf, while the carts and the cattle continued their way along the bank as far as l'Ile-aux-Bourdons, opposite Checy, two and a half miles further up the river.[922] There the unloading was to take place.

At a signal from the watchmen my Lord the Bastard, accompanied by Thibaut de Termes and certain other captains, left the town by the Burgundian Gate, took a boat at Saint-Jean-de-Braye, and came down to hold counsel with the Lords de Rais and de Lore, who commanded the convoy.[923] [Footnote 922: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

4, 5.

Boucher de Molandon, _Bulletin de la Societe archeologique de l'Orleanais_, vol.iv, p.
427; vol.ix, p.73.The same author, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.