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Vallet de Viriville, Paris, 1857, p.28.
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101.] [Footnote 157: The order of the births of Jacques d'Arc's children is extremely doubtful (_Trial_, index, under the word _Arc_).] Jacques d'Arc's house was on the verge of the precincts of the parish church, dedicated to Saint Remi, the apostle of Gaul.[158] There was only the graveyard to cross when the child was carried to the font.
It is said that in those days and in that country the form of exorcism pronounced by the priest during the baptismal ceremony was much longer for girls than for boys.[159] We do not know whether Messire Jean Minet,[160] the parish priest, pronounced it over the child in all its literal fulness, but we notice the custom as one of the numerous signs of the Church's invincible mistrust of woman. [Footnote 158: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.
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