13.] [Footnote 92: _Ibid._, p.100.See _ante_, p.

xxvi (note 4).] After all the Duke of Alencon was quite moderate when he represented her as a distinguished artillery-woman.

As early as 1429, a humanist on the side of Charles VII asserted in Ciceronian language that in military glory she equalled and surpassed Hector, Alexander, Hannibal and Caesar: "Non Hectore reminiscat et gaudeat Troja, exultet Graecia Alexandro, Annibale Africa, Italia Caesare et Romanis ducibus omnibus glorietur, Gallia etsi ex pristinis multos habeat, hac tamen una Puella contenta, audebit se gloriari et laude bellica caeteris nationibus se comparare, verum quoque, si expediet, se anteponere."[93] [Footnote 93: Letter from Alain Chartier in the _Trial_, vol.v, pp.
135, 136; Capitaine P.Marin, _Jeanne d'Arc tacticien et strategiste_, Paris, 1889, 4 vols.

in 12mo; Le General Canonge, _Jeanne d'Arc guerriere_, Paris, 1907, in 8vo.] For ever praying and for ever wrapped in ecstasy, Jeanne never observed the enemy; she did not know the roads; she paid no heed to the number of troops engaged; she did not take into account either the height of walls or the breadth of trenches.

Even to-day officers are to be heard discussing the Maid's military tactics.[94] Those tactics were simple; they consisted in preventing men from blaspheming against God and consorting with light women.