Cf.

A.Precicou, _Rabelais et les Limousins_, Limoges, 1906, in 8vo.] "But after all," he said, "it cannot be God's will that you should be believed unless some sign appear to make us believe in you.

On your word alone we cannot counsel the King to run the risk of granting you men-at-arms." "In God's name," she answered, "it was not to give a sign that I came to Poitiers.

But take me to Orleans and I will show you the signs wherefore I am sent.

Let me be given men, it matters not how many, and I will go to Orleans." And she repeated what she was continually saying: "The English shall all be driven out and destroyed.