52/72 Among these prisoners was the Squire Thiesselin de Vittel, whose wife had held Jacques d'Arc's second daughter over the baptismal font. From one of the hills of her village, Jeanne, who was then seven or a little older, could see the battle in which her godmother's husband was taken prisoner.[228] [Footnote 228: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp. S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p. lxiv.] Meanwhile matters grew worse and worse in the kingdom of France. |