In those days wine was highly valued on account of its beneficent power.
Jeanne, when she emphasised a wish, would say: "If I were never to drink wine between now and Easter!..."[987] But in reality she never drank wine except mixed with water, and she ate little.[988] [Footnote 986: Extracts from fortress accounts, in the _Trial_, vol.
v, p.

259.] [Footnote 987: _Trial_, vol.i, p.

64.] [Footnote 988: _Ibid._, vol.iii, pp.

9, 15, 18, 22, 60; vol.v, p.
120.

_Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.285.Morosini, p.101._Relation du greffier de La Rochelle_, p.