427.] [Footnote 305: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.

432.] "Daughter of God, thou must leave thy village and go forth into France."[306] [Footnote 306: _Ibid._, vol.i, pp.

52, 53.] And the ladies Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret spoke again and said: "Take the standard sent down to thee by the King of Heaven, take it boldly and God will help thee." As she listened to these words of the ladies with the beautiful crowns, Jeanne was consumed with a desire for long expeditions on horseback, and for those battles in which angels hover over the heads of the warriors.

But how was she to go to France?
How was she to associate with men-at-arms?
Ignorant and generously impulsive like herself, the Voices she heard merely revealed to her her own heart, and left her in sad agitation of mind: "I am a poor girl, knowing neither how to bestride a horse nor how to make war."[307] [Footnote 307: _Ibid._, p.

53.] Jeanne's native village was named after the blessed Remi;[308] the parish church bore the name of the great apostle of the Gauls, who, in baptising King Clovis, had anointed with holy oil the first Christian prince of the noble House of France, descended from the noble King Priam of Troy.
[Footnote 308: _Ibid._, vol.ii, pp.