53.] Resolved to obey faithfully the behest of the Archangel which accorded with her own desire, Jeanne foresaw that her mother, albeit pious, would grant her no aid in her design and that her father would strongly oppose it.

Therefore she refrained from confiding it to them.[321] [Footnote 321: _Trial_, vol.i, p.

128.] She thought that Durand Lassois would be the man to give her the succour of which she had need.

In consideration of his age she called him uncle,--he was her elder by sixteen years.
Their kinship was by marriage: Lassois had married one Jeanne, daughter of one Le Vauseul, husbandman, and of Aveline, sister of Isabelle de Vouthon, and consequently cousin-german of Isabelle's daughter.[322] [Footnote 322: _Ibid._, vol.ii, p.443.Boucher de Molandon, _La famille de Jeanne d'Arc_, p.146.

E.de Bouteiller and G.de Braux, _Nouvelles recherches sur la famille de Jeanne d'Arc_, introduction, pp.