'How long have they been in communication with you?'
'I have been under their protection seven years,' was the answer.
Joan had referred to the succour which she had received from Saint Michel. On being asked which of these saints was the first to appear to her, she said it was the last named. She had seen him, she said, as clearly as she saw Beaupère, and that he was not by himself, but in a company of angels. When he left her she felt miserable, and longed to have been taken with the flight of angels.
When Beaupère asked her if it was her own idea to come into France, Joan replied in the affirmative, and also that she would sooner have been torn to pieces by horses than have come without the will of God.
'Does He,' asked the priest, 'tell you not to wear the man's dress? and had not Baudricourt,' he added, 'wished she should dress as a man?'
She said it was not by man's but by God's orders that she wore the dress of a man.
The questions again turned upon the vision and the voice.
Had an angel appeared above the head of the King at Chinon?
She answered that when she entered the King's presence, three hundred soldiers stood in the hall, and fifty torches burnt in the great hall of the castle, and that without counting the spiritual light within.
She was then asked respecting her examination before the clergy at Poitiers.