Note 43 — Chapter III · Some of the Primary Gothic Cathedrals: Noyon, Senlis, Sens, Laon, Soissons

The people of the Valois country cried “Noël!” as Jeanne passed. And as she rode between the great Dunois and the archbishop of Rheims she exclaimed, with emotion: “Here is a good people! Happy would I be, when I come to die, to be laid here to rest.” “Know you when you will die, Jeanne?” said the archbishop. “I know not. I am in the hands of God,” she made answer. “I would it pleased God, my creator, that I could go back now to serve under my father and my mother, and to keep their sheep with my brothers, who would be right glad to see me home.”—From the testimony of the Comte de Dunois, in 1455, Jeanne’s companion-in-arms in 1429.