Nevertheless, when imprisoned at Rouen, she fasted during Lent; but we do not know how old her judges considered her to be.] [Footnote 632: _Trial_, vol.i, p.

143.] There were three castles merging before her into one long mass of embattled walls, of keeps, towers, turrets, curtains, barbicans, ramparts, and watch-towers; three castles separated one from the other by dykes, barriers, posterns, and portcullis.

On her left, towards sunset, crowded, one behind the other, the eight towers of Coudray, one of which had been built for a king of England, while the newest were more than two hundred years old.

On the right could be plainly seen the middle castle, with its ancient walls and its towers crowned with machicolated battlements.

There was the chamber of Saint Louis, the King's chamber, the apartment of him whom Jeanne called the Gentle Dauphin.