The saints of Paradise are generally ready to take the side of those who invoke them most devoutly.

And Saint George, after all, was just as English as Saint Michael was French.

That glorious archangel had appeared as the most vigilant protector of the Lilies ever since my Lord Saint Denys, the patron saint of the kingdom, had permitted his abbey to be taken.

And Jeanne knew it.
[Footnote 633: G.de Cougny, _Notice archeologique et historique sur le chateau de Chinon_, Chinon, 1860, in 8vo.] [Footnote 634: _La legende doree_, translated by Gustave Brunet, 1846, pp.

259, 264.