Note 335 — Chapter X · Gothic Art in Normandy[314]

The court at Rouen asked Jeanne at the fourth interrogation, February 27, 1431: “Whose was the first voice you heard when you were about thirteen?” Jeanne replied: “It was St. Michael’s. I saw him before my eyes; he was not alone, but was encircled by angels of heaven. I saw him with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. When they left me, I wept; right gladly would I have gone with them, that is—my soul.” At the seventh interrogation, March 15, 1431, when asked how she knew it was St. Michael, Jeanne replied: “Par le parler et le langage des anges.... He told me I was a good child and that God would aid me, and to come to the aid of the king of France. He related to me the grand pitié qui était au royaume de France.”—E. O’Reilly, Les deux procès de condamnation et la sentence de réhabilitation, de Jeanne d’Arc (Paris, Plon, 1808), 2 vols.