B.Ledain, _Jeanne d'Arc a Poitiers_, Saint-Maixent, 1891, in 8vo.] [Footnote 743: Nevertheless see _Le mistere du siege_, pp.

397-406.] Jean Rabateau's wife, in common with the wives of all lawyers, was a woman of good reputation.[744] While she was at La Rose, Jeanne would stay long on her knees every day after dinner.

At night she would rise from her bed to pray, and pass long hours in the little oratory of the mansion.

It was in this house that the doctors conducted her examination.

When their coming was announced she was seized with cruel anxiety.