Jeanne was in favour with my Lord the Duke of Alencon and with my Lord the Bastard; the inhabitants of Orleans were looking to her for their deliverance.

She promised to take the King to Reims; and it happened that the cleverest and the most powerful man in France, the Chancellor of the kingdom, my Lord Regnault de Chartres, was Archbishop and Count of Reims; and that had great weight.[740] [Footnote 739: O.Raguenet de Saint-Albin, _Les juges de Jeanne d'Arc a Poitiers, membres du Parlement ou gens d'Eglise_, Orleans, 1894, in 8vo, 46 pages.] [Footnote 740: See _ante_, pp.

153, 154.] If it should be as she said, if God had verily sent her to the aid of the Lilies, to the mind of whomsoever possessed sense and learning it appeared marvellous but not incredible.

No one denied that God could directly intervene in the affairs of kingdoms, for he himself had said: _Per me reges regnant_.
In this Church holy and indivisible, there were the doctors of Poitiers who deliberately pronounced God to be on the side of the Dauphin, while the University of Paris as deliberately pronounced God to be on the side of the Burgundians and the English.

His messenger need not necessarily be an angel.