57-79.] She was brought up in her father's house, in Jacques' poor dwelling.[168] In the front there were two windows admitting but a scanty light.

The stone roof forming one side of a gable on the garden side sloped almost to the ground.

Close by the door, as was usual in that country, were the dung-heap, a pile of firewood, and the farm tools covered with rust and mud.

But the humble enclosure, which served as orchard and kitchen-garden, in the spring bloomed in a wealth of pink and white flowers.[169] [Footnote 168: _Trial_, vol.v, pp.

244 _et seq._ Jacques d'Arc's house doubtless looked on to the road; the Du Lys, or rather the Thiesselins, pulled it down and erected in its place a house no longer existing.