393, _passim_.

S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, vol.xvi, p.

357.] [Footnote 159: A.Monteil, _Histoire des Francais_, 1853, in 18mo, vol.ii, p.

194.] [Footnote 160: _Trial_, vol.i, p.46.Jean Minet was a native of Neufchateau.] According to the custom then prevailing the child had several godfathers and godmothers.[161] The men-gossips were Jean Morel, of Greux,[162] husbandman; Jean Barrey, of Neufchateau; Jean Le Langart or Lingui, and Jean Rainguesson; the women, Jeannette, wife of Thevenin le Royer, called Roze, of Domremy; Beatrix, wife of Estellin,[163] husbandman in the same village; Edite, wife of Jean Barrey; Jeanne, wife of Aubrit, called Jannet and described as Maire Aubrit when he was appointed secretary to the lords of Bourlemont; Jeannette, wife of Thiesselin de Vittel, a scholar of Neufchateau.

She was the most learned of all, for she had heard stories read out of books.