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12
This estimate was probably incorrect; 3,500 was more like the actual number.
13
Procès, iii. 100.
14
Procès, iii. pp. 5, 6, 7. They were 'near Saint Loup,' he says, 'on the right bank of the Loire above Orleans.' But (p. 7) he says that after their conversation he and Joan crossed to the right from the left bank. At all events they were some six miles higher up the river than Orleans.
15
Following Pasquerel, her priest. Procès, iii, 109.
16
Quicherat, Nouveaux Aperçus, p. 76.
17
'Daughter of God, go on, and I will help thee.'
18
Sir Walter Scott reckons that there were five men to each 'lance'; perhaps four men is more usually the right number.
19
In Procès, iv. 414.
20
D'Alençon, Procès, iii. 98.
21
Dunois. Procès, iii. 14.
22
Journal du Siège. Procès, iv. 195. As it stands, this authority is thirty years later than the events.
23
This man was Clement de Fauquemberque. When he recorded the relief of Orleans, he drew on the margin of his paper a little fancy sketch of Joan, with long hair, a woman's dress, a sword, and a banner with the monogram of Jesus. This sketch still exists. (Procès, iv. 451.)
24
This was not far from the present Théâtre Français. The statue of the Maid, on horseback, is near the place where she was wounded.
25
Paris, as the Clerk of Parliament wrote in his note-book, could only be taken by blockade. It was a far larger city than Orleans, and we see how long the English, in the height of courage and confidence, were delayed by Orleans. But the Maid did not know the word 'impossible.' Properly supported, she could probably have taken Paris by assault; at the least she would not have left it while she lived.
26
In 1715.
27
Schäfer's Geschichte von Portugal.
28
Six o'clock.
29
Chapman's History of Gustavus Vasa.
30
Brantôme.
31
From the Saga of King Olaf the Holy, or St. Olaf.
32
London, 1720.
33
As a matter of fact, Suetonius, 'The destined to die salute thee.'
34
From Snorri's Edda, cap. 44.
35
Glasgow, 1758. Written by himself.
36
Taken from the Churchill Collection, 1732. Written by himself.
37
The Swedes were still heathens, and ate horses, meat then forbidden to Christians.
38
Others were Frederick the Great, and David Leslie!
39
In Waverley this generous speech is attributed to Flora Macivor.
40
Readers of Waverley will remember that in this fight Fergus Macivor was taken prisoner.
41
See the story of 'How they held the Bass for King James.'