He recollected that Marie of Avignon, surnamed La Gasque, had uttered true and memorable prophecies to King Charles VI.

Now La Gasque had told the King that the realm was to suffer many sorrows; and she had seen weapons in the sky.

Her story of her vision had concluded with these words: "While I was afeard, believing myself called upon to take these weapons, a voice comforted me, saying: 'They are not for thee, but for a Virgin, who shall come and with these weapons deliver the realm of France.'" Maitre Jean Erault meditated on these marvellous revelations and came to believe that Jeanne was the Virgin announced by Marie of Avignon.[754] [Footnote 754: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

83.] Maitre Gerard Machet, the King's Confessor, had found it written that a Maid should come to the help of the King of France.

He remarked on it to Gobert Thibault, the Squire, who was no very great personage;[755] and he certainly spoke of it to several others.
Gerard Machet, Doctor of Theology, sometime Vice Chancellor of the University, from which he was now excluded, was regarded as one of the lights of the Church.