Then followed questions as to the fashion of the crown that the King had worn at Rheims: which brought the fifth day of the trial to a close.
The sixth and last day's public examination took place on the 3rd of March, forty-two judges present. The long series of questions were nearly all relating to the appearance of the saints. Both questions and answers were nearly the same as on the previous occasions, and little more information was got from the prisoner.
After these, the subject of her dress—what she then wore, and what she had worn—was entered upon.
'When you came to the King,' she was asked, 'did he not inquire if your change in dress was owing to a revelation or not?'
'I have already answered,' said Joan, 'that I do not remember if he asked me. This evidence was made known when I was at Poitiers.'
'And the doctors who examined you,' asked Beaupère, 'at Poitiers, did they not want to know regarding your being dressed in man's clothes?'
'I don't remember,' she answered; 'but they asked me when I had first begun to wear man's dress, and I told them that it was when I was at Vaucouleurs.'
She was then asked whether the Queen had not asked her to leave off wearing male clothes. She answered that that had nothing to do with the trial.
'But,' next inquired Beaupère, 'when you were at the castle of Beaurevoir, did not the ladies there ask you to do so?'
'Yes,' was the answer, 'and they offered to give me a woman's dress. But the time had not yet come.' She would, she added, have yielded sooner to the wishes of those ladies than to those of any other, the Queen excepted.