Two days after her arrival, what she had so ardently desired came to pass: she was taken to the King.[659] In the last century near the Grand-Carroy, opposite a wooden-fronted house, there was shown a well on the edge of which, according to tradition, Jeanne set foot when she alighted from her horse, before climbing the steep ascent leading to the Castle.
Through La Vieille Porte,[660] she was already crossing the moat when the King was still hesitating as to whether he would receive her.

Many of his familiar advisers, and those not the least important, counselled him to beware of a strange woman whose designs might be evil.

There were others who put it before him that this shepherdess was introduced by letters from Robert de Baudricourt carried through hostile provinces; that in journeying to the King she had forded many rivers in a manner almost miraculous.

On these considerations the King consented to receive her.[661] [Footnote 659: _Ibid._, vol.i, p.

143.] [Footnote 660: The kerb was removed during the Second Empire.