95.] On the morrow, the 3rd of May, the day of the Invention of the Holy Cross, which was the Cathedral Festival, she followed in the procession, with the magistrates and the townsfolk.

It was then that Maitre Jean de Macon, the precentor of the cathedral,[990] greeted her with these words: "My daughter, are you come to raise the siege ?" [Footnote 990: Charles Cuissard, _Notes chronologiques sur Jean de Macon_, in _Memoires de la Societe archeologique de l'Orleanais_, vol.
xi, 1897, pp.

529, 545.] She replied: "Yea, in God's name."[991] [Footnote 991: _Chronique de la fete_, in _Trial_, vol.v, p.

291.
Lottin, _Recherches_, vol.i, p.

30.] The people of Orleans all believed that the English round the city were as innumerable as the stars in the sky; the notary, Guillaume Girault, expected nothing short of a miracle.[992] Jean Luillier, woollen draper[993] by trade, thought it impossible for the citizens to hold out longer against an enemy so enormously their superior.[994] Messire Jean de Macon was likewise alarmed at the power and the numbers of the _Godons_.
[Footnote 992: Note by Guill.