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1804.] Manuferipts in the Library of the late King of France. 
If I have been confeffed, or received the | 
communion in this drefs in many large 
towns, I was never in armour at the time. 
I have always had a woman to fleep with 
me, and when I could not have one, I al- 
ways Jay down entirely cloathed and 
armed, On my arrival before the King, 
] was examined and interrogated for three 
weeks at Chinon and at Poitiers. They 
wrote down all that I faid. I with that 
my judges had it now before them, 
*< It was revealed to me that [ fhould 
caufe the fiege of Orleans tobe raifed. J 
affured the King of it, whom I recognized 
at firlt, among thofe who furrounded him, 
although I had never feen him before, by 
means of a vifion which I had at that mo- 
ment, accompanied with a great light. 
They found at St. Catherine de’ Fierbois, 
in the place which I had defcivibed after a 
revelation which the Saints had made to 
me, a {werd concealed in the earth, It 
was entirely rufty, but this difappeared all 
at once, without any fuperftitious cere- 
mony being employed. This I wore a 
dong time and left it at Lagni. 
“« T wifhed to prevail upon the Duke of 
Burgundy to make peace with the King ; 
and I told the King that he would one day 
compel him to do it, if the duke would 
not then confent ; but it is true that I faid 
at the fame time that no peace was to be 
made with the Englifh, but that they muft 
be compelled to return to their own coun- 
try.* 
«© From this time I have done nothing, 
but under the guidance of the revelations 
which were made to me, and even now 
upon my trial, I only fpeak, after it has 
been. revealed to me, what I may be per- 
mitted to fay. You reproach me with 
having commanded in battle, at the head 
of 6000 men, of princes, of barons, and of 
nobles, as if I were their captain; but if I 
have been a leader in the war, it was in 
obedience to the Saintsand Angels, and for 
that my reliance is in God, as it is for all 
that I have done. For the reft, I have 
never praftifed any foicery, or enchant- 
ment, or any thing which has the leaft re- 
lation to either. 
«¢ Tf my ftandard, or the particular ban- 
ners of my troops, reprefented two angels 
fupporting God, who held the world in 
his hands, with the words Hefus- Maria, 
Ahe voices of the faints pointed it out to 
* It is neceflary to obferve here, that all 
which relates to the fign given to Charles the 
Vilth to give credit tofoan,when brought be- 
fore him, will form the fubjeét of a feparate 
aifcuflion in the third part. 
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me, and many perfons advifed me to it. 
Nothing particular was done with refvect 
to thele colours, and the angels were paint. 
ed upon them in the fame manner as they 
are painted in churches. If I haye often 
faid that thefe colours and banners were 
fortunate, it was not becaufe I pretended 
to attribute to them any particular virtue, 
but becaute I wifhed that they might be 
fo, and to encourage the foldiers: but 
without that, the two Saints hid affured 
me of fuccefs. If] had been wounded in 
the neck at the flege of Orleans, the two 
Saints would have previoufly informed me 
of it, and I fhould have told it to the 
King: but I was not quite fure of being 
able to raife the filege, becaufe they had 
told me fo. 
«If I have always borne my own 
ftandard myfelf, I have never had any 
other object in doing fo but to avoid fhed. 
ding human blood, I have never, in fa&t, 
killed one man in battle. If I have hung 
up my arms in the Church of Saint Denys, 
it was that I might thank God for not 
having been killed at the attack of the 
City of Paris, where I was wounded, and 
-without having any other motive, much 
lefs that of expofing them for public ve- 
neration, If many perfons have kiffed 
my hands and my rings, they have done 
it in fpite of me. I did ali that was in 
my power to prevent them, and I only 
received with pleafure poor perfons whe 
came to me, and whom I confoled in the 
beft manner that I could. As to my rings, 
I never had but two, one given me by my 
father, end the other by my brother, and 
I have never attributed any charm or 
power to them, 
‘¢ If there were any who did not ap- 
proach me until they had made the fign of 
the crofs with holy water, I have faid to 
them, Approach without fear, I fall not fy 
away. If one Friar Richard has prefied 
me to adopt the revelations’of a woman 
whom he caufed me to fee, I have not be- 
lieved in them after having made the exa- 
mination which I judged neceflary. If 
they have painted portraits of me, IT have 
only feen one, which reprefented me kneel- 
ing and prefenting a letter to the King, 
If they have made images cr otherrepre(en- 
tations of me on-paper, in lead, or any other 
metal; if they have been worn fufpended - 
at the neck, if they have called mea faint, 
if they have taken me for the firft faint ia 
Paradife after the Holy Virgin, if they 
have taken me for an angel rather than a 
woman, if they named me in church in 
their prayers, or if they have raifed ftatues 
to my honour, as you-pretend, J know 
nothing 
