"But what a carnage was not thereupon made of the Jacques! The day of reprisals will come!"
"Well, the Jacques had their turn; that is some consolation!"[45]
"Now it will be the turn of the English, thanks to Joan the Maid—the envoy of God! She will throw them out!"
"Aye, aye! Let her alone—she promised that within a month there will not be one of these foreigners left in France."[46]
"Glory to her! The shepherdess of Domremy will have done what neither King, dukes, knights nor captains were capable of accomplishing!"
"Good luck to you, Joan, born like ourselves of the common people! A blessing on her from all the poor serfs who have been suffering death and all the agonies of death at the hands of the English!"
"They are letting down the drawbridge of the castle!"
"There she is! That's she!"
"How well shaped and beautiful she is in her man's clothes! Prosperity to Joan the Maid!"
"Look at her! You would take her for a handsome young page with her black hair cut round, her scarlet cape, her green jacket, her leather hose and her spurred boots! Long live our Joan!"