'I offered up at Saint Denis,' answered Joan, 'a sword and some armour, but not the Fierbois sword.'
'Had you it when at Lagny?' asked Beaupère.
'Yes,' answered the prisoner.
But between the time passed at Lagny and Compiègne she wore another sword, taken from a Burgundian soldier, which she said was a good weapon, able to deal shrewd blows. But she would not satisfy Beaupère's curiosity as to what had become of the sword of Fierbois: 'That,' she said, 'has nothing to do with the trial.'
Beaupère next inquired as to what had become of Joan of Arc's goods.
She said her brother had her horses and her goods; she said she believed the latter amounted to some twelve thousand écus.
'Had you not,' asked the priest, 'when you went to Orleans, a banner or pennon? Of what colour was that?'
'My banner had a field all covered with fleurs-de-lis. In it was represented the world, with angels on either side. It was white, made of white cloth, of a kind called coucassin. On it was written Jesu Maria. It was bordered with silk.'
'Which were you fondest of?' asked Beaupère,—'your banner or your sword?'
'I loved my banner,' was the answer, 'forty times as much as I did my sword.'