Not content with deriving their descent from their aunt, the Du Lys insisted on connecting the good peasant Jacquot d'Arc with the old nobility of Bar.
Notwithstanding that Jeanne's reference to "her father's mansion" conflicts with other scenes in the same mystery, this lengthy work would appear to be all of a piece.
It was apparently compiled during the reign of Louis XI, by a citizen of Orleans who was a fair master of his subject.

It would be interesting to make a more detailed study of his authorities than has been done hitherto.

This poet seems to have known a _Journal du siege_ very different from the one we possess.
Was his mystery acted during the last thirty years of the century at the festival instituted to commemorate the taking of Les Tourelles?
The subject, the style, and the spirit are all in harmony with such an occasion.

But it is curious that a poem composed to celebrate the deliverance of Orleans on May 8 should assign that deliverance to May 9.

And yet this is what the author of the mystery does when he puts the following lines into the mouth of the Maid: "Remember how Orleans was delivered in the year one thousand four hundred and twenty-nine, and forget not also that of May it was the ninth day."[31] [Footnote 31: ...