438, 457; vol.iii, pp.

100, 219.] The heavenly source of such purity must needs have been made manifest by Jeanne's possessing singular immunities.

And on this point there is a mass of evidence.

Rough men at arms, Jean de Novelompont, Bertrand de Poulengy, Jean d'Aulon; great nobles, the Count of Dunois and the Duke of Alencon, come forward and affirm on oath that in them Jeanne never provoked any carnal desires.

Such a circumstance fills these old captains with astonishment; they boast of their past vigour and wonder that for once their youthful ardour should have been damped by a maid.
It seems to them most unnatural and humanly impossible.