20.] Without this anointing there was no king of France for her.

Of the miracles which had followed that anointing she had heard every year from the mouth of her priest as he recited the glorious deeds of the Blessed Saint Remi, the patron saint of her parish.

This reply was such as to satisfy the interrogators because, both for things spiritual and temporal, it was important that the King should be anointed at Reims.[762] And Messire Regnault de Chartres must have ardently desired it.
[Footnote 762: It may be noticed that during the consultation of the doctors, according to the report of it given by Thomassin in _Le registre Delphinal_, Charles of Valois is designated alike by the title of King and by that of Dauphin (_Trial_, vol.iv, p.

303).] Contradicted by the clerks, she opposed the Church's doctrine by the inspiration of her own heart, and said to them: "There is more in the Book of Our Lord than in all yours."[763] [Footnote 763: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.

86.] This was a bold and biting reply, which would have been dangerous had the theologians been less favourably inclined to her.