Brother Jean Lombard asked: "Wherefore have you come?
The King desires to know what led you to come to him." Jeanne's reply greatly impressed these clerks: "As I kept my flocks a _Voice appeared to me_.

The Voice said: 'God has great pity on the people of France.

Jeanne, thou must go into France.' On hearing these words I began to weep.

Then the Voice said unto me: 'Go to Vaucouleurs.

There shalt thou find a captain, who will take thee safely into France, to the King.