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CHAPTER XIX
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RISE OF THE LEGEND
IT is always difficult to ascertain1 what happens in war. In those days it was quite impossible to form any clear idea of how things came about. At Orléans, doubtless, there were certain who were keen enough to perceive that the numerous and ingenious engines of war, gathered together by the magistrates3, had been of great service; but folk generally prefer to ascribe results to miraculous4 causes, and the merit of their deliverance the people of Orléans attributed first to their Blessed Patrons, Saint Aignan and Saint Euverte, and after them to Jeanne, the Divine Maid, believing that there was no easier, simpler, or more natural explanation of the deeds they had witnessed.[1550]
Guillaume Girault, former magistrate2 of the town and notary5 at the Chatelet, wrote and signed, with his own hand, a brief account of the deliverance of the city. Herein he states that on Wednesday, Ascension Eve, the bastion of Saint-Loup was stormed and taken as if by miracle, "there being present, and aiding in the fight, Jeanne the Maid, sent of God;" and that, on the following Saturday, the siege laid by the English to Les Tourelles at the end of the bridge was[Pg i.462] raised by the most obvious miracle since the Passion. And Guillaume Girault testifies that the Maid led the enterprise.[1551] When eye-witnesses, participators in the deeds themselves, had no clear idea of events, what could those more remote from the scene of action think of them?
The tidings of the French victories flew with astonishing rapidity.[1552] The brevity of authentic6 accounts was amply supplemented by the eloquence7 of loquacious8 clerks and the popular imagination. The Loire campaign and the coronation expedition were scarcely known at first save by
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