But Jeanne was still a babe in arms when Pierre de Bourlemont, lord of Domremy and Greux, died childless, leaving his lands to his niece Jeanne de Joinville, who lived at Nancy, having married the chamberlain of the Duke of Lorraine.[207] [Footnote 206: Concerning the Sunday and the Festival of the Well-Dressing at Domremy, see _Trial_, index, under the word _Fontaine_.] [Footnote 207: _Trial_, vol.i, pp.

67, 212, 404 _et seq._ S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, pp.

xx-xxii.] At the well-dressing the young men and maidens of Domremy went to the old beech-tree together.

After they had hung it with garlands of flowers, they spread a cloth on the grass and supped off nuts, hard-boiled eggs, and little rolls of a curious form, which the housewives had kneaded on purpose.[208] Then they drank from the Gooseberry Spring, danced in a ring, and returned to their own homes at nightfall.
[Footnote 208: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.

407, 411, 413, 421.] Jeanne, like all the other damsels of the countryside, took her part in the well-dressing.