404, 407, 409, 411, 414, 416, _passim_.] [Footnote 301: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.

402, 434.] [Footnote 302: _Ibid._, p.402.Concerning Jeanne's religious observances, see _Ibid._, index, under the words _Messe_, _Vierge_, _Cloche_.] As for the good man, Jacques d'Arc, it is possible that he may have occasionally complained of those pilgrimages, those meditations, and those other practices which ill accorded with the ordinary tenor of country life.

Every one thought Jeanne odd and erratic.

Mengette and her friends, when they found her so devout, said she was too pious.[303] They scolded her for not dancing with them.

Among others, Isabellette, the young wife of Gerardin d'Epinal, the mother of little Nicholas, Jeanne's godson, roundly condemned a girl who cared so little for dancing.[304] Colin, son of Jean Colin, and all the village lads made fun of her piety.