xxi, xxii.] With his wife, his father-in-law, and his mother-in-law, Lassois dwelt at Burey-en-Vaulx, a hamlet of a few homesteads, lying on the left bank of the Meuse, in the green valley, five miles from Domremy, and less than two and a half miles from Vaucouleurs.[323] [Footnote 323: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.

411, 431, 439.

S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, p.clxi.Hinzelin, _Chez Jeanne d'Arc_, p.

92.] Jeanne went to see him, told him of her design, and showed him that she must needs see Sire Robert de Baudricourt.

That her kind kinsman might the more readily believe in her, she repeated to him the strange prophecy, of which we have already made mention: "Was it not known of old," she said, "that a woman should ruin the kingdom of France and that a woman should re-establish it ?"[324] [Footnote 324: _Trial_, vol.ii, pp.