_Journal du siege_, p.

80.] These men-at-arms answered her with insults as those of Les Tourelles had done.

One of them, the Bastard of Granville, cried out to her: "Would you have us surrender to a woman ?" The French, who were with her, they dubbed pimps and infidels, to shame them for being in the company of a bad woman and a witch.[985] But whether because they thought her magic rendered her invulnerable, or because they held it dishonourable to strike a messenger, now, as on other occasions, they forbore to fire on her.
[Footnote 985: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

68 (evidence of Louis de Coutes).] That Sunday, Jacquet le Prestre, the town varlet, offered the Maid wine.[986] The magistrates and citizens could not have more highly honoured her whom they regarded as their captain.

Thus they treated barons, kings and queens when they were entertained in the city.