It is no longer possible to doubt that the prophecy thus revised is the work of an ecclesiastic whose intentions may be easily divined.

Henceforth one is conscious of an idea agitating and possessing the young seer of visions.
[Footnote 290: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.

444.] [Footnote 291: "_Nonne alias dictum fuit quod Francia per mulierem desolaretur, et postea per Virginem restaurari debebat ?_" Evidence given by Durand Lassois in _Trial_, vol.ii, p.

444.] [Footnote 292: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.447.Nevertheless the woman Le Royer of Domremy remembered it and was astonished by it.

_Et hunc ipsa testis haec audisse recordata est et stupefacta fuit._] On the banks of the Meuse, among the humble folk of the countryside, some churchman, preoccupied with the lot of the poor people of France, directed Jeanne's visions to the welfare of the kingdom and to the conclusion of peace.