She was asked whether she had received permission from God to go into France and whether God had commanded her to put on man's dress.
By keeping silence on this point she became liable to be suspected of heresy, and however she replied she laid herself open to serious charges,—she either took upon herself homicide and abomination, or she attributed it to God, which manifestly was to blaspheme.
Concerning her coming into France, she said: "I would rather have been dragged by the hair of my head than have come into France without permission from Messire." Concerning her dress she added: "Dress is but a little thing, less than nothing. It was not according to the counsel of any man of this world that I put on man's clothing. I neither wore this attire nor did anything save by the command of Messire and his angels."[687]
Maître Jean Beaupère asked: "When you behold this Voice coming towards you, is there any light?"
Then she replied with a jest, as at Poitiers: "Every light cometh not to you, my fair lord."[688]
After all it was virtually against the King of France that these doctors of Rouen were proceeding with craft and with cunning.
Maître Jean Beaupère threw out the question: "How did your King come to have faith in your sayings?"
"Because they were proved good to him by signs and also because of his clerks."
"What revelations were made unto your King?"
"That you will not hear from me this year."