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xviii _et seq._, 9.] While she was speaking to Sire Robert there was present, and not by chance merely, a certain knight of Lorraine, Bertrand de Poulengy, who possessed lands near Gondrecourt and held an office in the provostship of Vaucouleurs.[341] He was then about thirty-six years of age.

He was a man who associated with churchmen; at least he was familiar with the manner of speech of devout persons.[342] Perhaps he now saw Jeanne for the first time; but he must certainly have heard of her; and he knew her to be good and pious.

Twelve years before he had frequently visited Domremy; he knew the country well; he had sat beneath _l'Arbre des Dames_, and had been several times to the house of Jacques d'Arc and Romee, whom he held to be good honest farmer folk.[343] [Footnote 341: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.475.Servais, in _Memoires de la Societe des Lettres, Sciences et Arts de Bar-le-Duc_, vol.vi, p.

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