436.] It was one of those promises to capitulate at the end of a given time.
They were not uncommon in those days, and they ceased to be valid if the fortress were relieved before the day fixed for its surrender.[387] [Footnote 387: S.Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, pp.

clxviii, 222, 234.] Jeanne went to Sire Robert in his castle just as she had done nine months before; and this was the revelation she made to him: "My Lord Captain," she said, "know that God has again given me to wit, and commanded me many times to go to the gentle Dauphin, who must be and who is the true King of France, and that he shall grant me men-at-arms with whom I shall raise the siege of Orleans and take him to his anointing at Reims."[388] [Footnote 388: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

273; _La Chronique de Lorraine_ in Dom Calmet, _Histoire de Lorraine_, vol.iii, col.

vj, gives an amplified version of these words, the authenticity of which is doubtful.] This time she announces that it is her mission to deliver Orleans.

And the anointing is not to come to pass until this the first part of her task shall have been accomplished.