But when the clerks represented to her that they were questioning her in the King's name, she told them that the King of Heaven had bidden her do two things: one was to raise the siege of Orleans, the other to lead the King to Reims for his anointing and his coronation.[646] Just as at Vaucouleurs before Sire Robert, so before these Churchmen she repeated very much what the vavasour of Champagne had said formerly, when he had been sent to Jean le Bon, as she was now sent to the Dauphin Charles.
[Footnote 646: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.22.These facts were known at Lyons on the 22nd of April, 1429.

(Clerk of the Chambre des Comptes of Brabant, in _Trial_, vol.iv, p.

426.)] Having journeyed as far as the Plain of Beauce, where King John, impatient for battle, was encamped with his army, the vavasour of Champagne entered the camp and asked to see the wisest and best of the King's liegemen at court.

The nobles, to whom this request was carried, began to laugh.

But one among them, who had with his own eyes seen the vavasour, recognised at once that he was a good, simple man and without guile.