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61, 62.] At last, when she heard that Brother Pasquerel would go with them to Blois, accompanied by the priests and bearing her standard, believing that her men would have a good spiritual director, she consented to stay.[942] She crossed the Loire with her brothers, her little company, the Bastard, the Marshal de Boussac, the Captain La Hire, and reached Checy, which was then quite a town, with two churches, an infirmary, and a lepers' hospital.[943] She was received by a rich burgess, one Guy de Cailly, in whose manor of Reuilly she passed the night.[944] [Footnote 942: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.105._Mistere du siege_, line 11,616.] [Footnote 943: Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp.
62, 99, note xiv, and in _Bulletin de la Societe archeologique de l'Orleanais_, vol.iv, p.
429; vol.ix, p.
73.] [Footnote 944: _Journal du siege_, p.75.Ch.du Lys, _Traite sommaire tant du nom et des armes que de la naissance et parente de la Pucelle d'Orleans et de ses freres_, Paris, 1628, in 4to, p.50.Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, p.344.
P.Mantellier, _Histoire du siege_, p. 86.
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