Since she was so ignorant of the way that when crossing the Blois bridge she never suspected that she was going into La Sologne, there is not much likelihood of her realising so exactly the lie of Orleans as to choose between entering it from the south or the west.

A damsel knowing naught beyond the name of the gate through which she is to enter the city, and who is yet persuaded by malicious captains to take one road rather than another, sounds too much like a Mother Goose's tale.
[Footnote 924: "_Et cuidoit bien qu'ils deussent passer par devers les bastides du siege devers la Beausse._" _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.
281.] [Footnote 925: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

285 (the Chronicle here amplifies the evidence of Dunois, vol.iii, p.

67).] Jeanne knew no more of Orleans than she did of Babylon.

We may therefore conjecture that there was a misunderstanding.