536) according to the written opinion of M.Camille Flammarion.] [Footnote 656: _Trial_, vol.iv, p.

536.] [Footnote 657: _Ibid._, vol.iii, p.

341.] At that very time the Dauphin Charles had with him at Chinon an old Norman astrologer, one Pierre, who may have been Pierre de Saint-Valerien, canon of Paris.

The latter had recently returned from Scotland, whither, accompanied by certain nobles, he had gone to fetch the Lady Margaret, betrothed to the Dauphin Louis.

Not long afterwards this Maitre Pierre was, rightly or wrongly, believed to have read in the sky that the shepherdess from the Meuse valley was appointed to drive out the English.[658] [Footnote 658: Recueil de Simon de Phares, in the _Trial_, vol.v, p.
32, note.] Jeanne had not long to wait in her inn.