Without pretending to discover what was passing in his mind, one may believe that he wrote to the Dauphin on Jeanne's behalf at the request of some of those persons who thought well of her, probably of Bertrand de Poulengy and of Jean de Metz.

These two men-at-arms, seeing that the Dauphin's cause was lost in the Lorraine Marches, had every reason for proceeding to the banks of the Loire, where they might still fight with the hope of advantage.
On the eve of setting out, they appeared disposed to take the seeress with them, and even to defray all her expenses, reckoning on repaying themselves from the royal coffers at Chinon, and deriving honour and advantage from so rare a marvel.

But they waited to be assured of the Dauphin's consent.[413] [Footnote 413: Extract from the eighth report of Guillaume Charrier, in the _Trial_, vol.v, pp.

257 _et seq._] Meanwhile Jeanne could not rest.

She came and went from Vaucouleurs to Burey and from Burey to Vaucouleurs.