The French attributed this victory to the all-powerful intercession of the archangel.[262] And why should he not have favoured the French who worshipped him with peculiar devoutness?
Since my Lord St.Denys had permitted his abbey to be taken by the English, my Lord St.Michael, who carefully guarded his, was in a fair way to become the true patron saint of the kingdom.[263] In the year 1419 the Dauphin Charles had had escutcheons painted, representing St.
Michael fully armed, holding a naked sword and in the act of slaying a serpent.[264] The maid of Domremy, however, knew but little of the miracles worked by my Lord St.Michael in Normandy.

She recognised the angel by his weapons, his courtesy, and the noble words that fell from his lips.[265] [Footnote 262: Lanery d'Arc, _Memoires et consultations en faveur de Jeanne d'Arc_, p.

272 (opinion of Jean Bochard, called de Vaucelle, Bishop of Avranches).

Dom.

J.Huynes, _loc.