And yet the King, in his letters to his good towns, attributed to her a share in the victory.
Evidently the Royal Council made a point of glorifying its Holy Maid.
[Footnote 89: Mr.Andrew Lang (_La Jeanne d'Arc de M.Anatole France_, p.

60) misreads this passage when he takes it to mean that the English withdrew their garrisons from these places.

That their ultimate surrender became inevitable after the English retreat from Orleans is what the writer intends to convey .-- W.S.] But at heart what did they really think, those who employed her, those Regnaults de Chartres, those Roberts le Macon, those Gerards Machet?
They were certainly in no position to discuss the origin of the illusions which enveloped her.

And, albeit there were atheists even among churchmen, to the majority there would be nothing to cause astonishment in the appearance of Saint Michael, the Archangel.

In those days nothing appeared more natural than a miracle.