P.Mantellier, _Histoire du siege_, pp.

92, 95.] That Sunday, for the second time, she went forth to offer peace to the enemies of the kingdom.

She passed out by the Renard Gate and went along the Blois Road, through the suburbs that had been burnt down, towards the English bastion.

Surrounded by a double moat, it was planted on a slope at the crossroads called La Croix Boissee or Buissee, because the townsfolk of Orleans had erected a cross there, which every Palm Sunday they dressed with a branch of box blessed by the priest.

Doubtless she intended to reach this bastion, and perhaps to go on to the camp of Saint-Laurent-des-Orgerils situated between La Croix Boissee and the Loire, where, as she had said, were Talbot and the English.