"When you showed the King the sign was there any one with him?"
"I think there was no other person, albeit there were many folk not far off."
"Did you see a crown on the King's head when you gave him this sign?"
"I cannot say without committing perjury."
"Had your King a crown at Reims?"
"My King, methinketh, took with pleasure the crown he found at Reims. But afterwards a very rich crown was brought him. He did not wait for it, because he wished to hurry on the ceremony according to the request of the inhabitants of Reims who desired to rid their town of the burden of men-at-arms. If he had waited he would have had a crown a thousand times more rich."
"Have you seen that richer crown?"
"I cannot tell you without committing perjury. If I have not seen it I have heard tell how rich and how magnificent it is."[717]
Jeanne suffered intensely from being deprived of the sacraments. One day when Messire Jean Massieu, performing the office of ecclesiastical usher, was taking her before her judges, she asked him whether there were not on the way some church or chapel in which was the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ.[718]