Wherefore it was necessary to obtain evidence to establish that she was more skilled in warfare than any man.
Damoiselle Marguerite la Touroulde makes this affirmation.[64] The Duke of Alencon declares that the Maid was apt alike at wielding the lance, ranging an army, ordering a battle, preparing artillery, and that old captains marvelled at her skill in placing cannon.[65] The Duke quite understands that all these gifts were miraculous and that to God alone was the glory.

For if the merit of the victories had been Jeanne's he would not have said so much about them.
[Footnote 64: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

85.] [Footnote 65: _Ibid._, p.100.On the other hand see the evidence of Dunois (vol.iii, p.

16), "licet dicta Johanna aliquotiens _jocose_ loqueretur de facto armorum, pro animando armatos ...

tamen quando loquebatur seriose de guerra ...