For he must have been aware that at Vaucouleurs she was living with men-at-arms.

Knowing her temperament, he had displayed great simplicity in letting her go.

One cannot help supposing that those pious persons who believed in Jeanne's goodness, and desired her to be taken into France for the saving of the kingdom, must have undertaken to reassure her father and mother concerning their daughter's manner of life; perhaps they even gave the simple folk to understand that if Jeanne did go to the King her family would derive therefrom honour and advantage.
[Footnote 434: _Ibid._, vol.i, p.

129.] Before or after her journey to Nancy (which is not known), certain of the townsfolk of Vaucouleurs who believed in the young prophetess either had made, or purchased for her ready made, a suit of masculine clothing, a jerkin, cloth doublet, hose laced on to the coat, gaiters, spurs, a whole equipment of war.

Sire Robert gave her a sword.[435] [Footnote 435: _Trial_, vol.i, p.