This Joan would not say.
'Who bore your flag?' asked the priest.
Joan of Arc said she carried it herself when charging the enemy, 'in order,' she added, 'to avoid killing any one. I never killed any one,' she said.
'How many soldiers did the King give you,' asked the priest, 'when he gave you a command?'
'Between ten and twelve thousand men,' answered Joan.
Then Beaupère questioned her regarding the relief of Orleans, and he was told by the Maid that she first went to the redoubt of Saint Loup by the bridge.
'Did you expect,' was the next question, 'that you would be able to raise the siege?'
'Yes,' she was certain, Joan answered, from a revelation which she had received, and of which she had told the King before making the expedition.
'At the time of the assault,' asked Beaupère, 'did you not tell your soldiers that you alone would receive all the arrows, bolts, and stones discharged by the cannon and culverins?'