‘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 Beaupere, ’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.

The subject of the flags and banners used by her during her campaigns was now entered on.

Had her standards not been copied by the men-at-arms?

‘They did so at their pleasures,’ she answered.

’Of what material was the banner made?  If the poles were broken, were they renewed?’

‘They were,’ she answered, ‘when broken.’

‘Did you not,’ asked Beaupere, ’say that the flags made like your banners were of good augury?’

‘What I said,’ answered Joan, ’to my soldiers was, that they should attack the enemy with boldness.’

‘Did you not sprinkle holy water on the banners?’

To this question Joan refused to answer.

Next she was questioned about a certain Friar Richard, the preaching friar who had seen her at Troyes.  She answered that he came to her making the sign of the Cross, and that she told him to come up to her without fear.

She was asked if it was true that she had pictures painted of herself in the likeness of a saint.

‘When at Arras,’ she answered, ’she had seen a portrait of herself, in which she was represented kneeling before the King and presenting him with a letter.’

‘But was there not a picture of you,’ asked Beaupere, ’in your host’s house at Orleans?’

Joan of Arc knew nothing regarding such a picture.

‘Did you not know,’ was the next question put, ’that your partisans had prayers and masses said in your honour?’

‘If they did so,’ she answered, ’it was not by my wish; but if they prayed for me,’ she added, ‘there was no harm in so doing.’

She was then asked what her opinion was regarding the people who kissed her hands and her feet, and even her clothes.  She answered that, inasmuch as she could, she prevented them doing so; but she acknowledged that the poor people flocked eagerly around her, and that she gave them all the assistance in her power.

She was next asked if she had not stood sponsor to some children baptized at Rheims.

‘Not at Rheims,’ she said; but she had for one child at Troyes.  She had also stood sponsor for two children at Saint Denis, and she had gladly had the boy christened by the name of Charles in honour of the King, and the girl Joan, as it pleased their mothers.