She was to be taken to the King as she had desired and within the time fixed by herself.

But this departure, for which she had so ardently longed, was delayed several days by a remarkable incident.

The incident shows that the fame of the young prophetess had gone out through Lorraine; and it proves that in those days the great of the land had recourse to saints in their hour of need.
Jeanne was summoned to Nancy by my Lord the Duke of Lorraine.
Furnished with a safe-conduct that the Duke had sent her, she set forth in rustic jerkin and hose on a nag given her by Durand Lassois and Jacques Alain.

It had cost them twelve francs which Sire Robert repaid them later out of the royal revenue.[420] From Vaucouleurs to Nancy is twenty-four leagues.

Jean de Metz accompanied her as far as Toul; Durand Lassois went with her the whole way.[421] [Footnote 420: Durand Lassois says it cost twelve francs, Jean de Metz, sixteen.