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THE MAID IN THE TRENCHES1 OF MELUN—LE SEIGNEUR DE L'OURS—THE CHILD OF LAGNY
IN Easter week, Jeanne, at the head of a band of mercenaries, is before the walls of Melun.[345] She arrives just in time to fight. The truces2 have expired.[346] Is it possible that the town which was subject to King Charles[347] can have refused to admit the Maid with her company when she came to it so generously? Apparently3 it was so. Was Jeanne able to communicate with the Carmelites of Melun? Probably. What misfortune befell her at the gates of the town? Did she suffer ill treatment at the hands of a Burgundian band? We know not. But when she was in the trenches she heard Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret saying unto her: "Thou wilt4 be taken before Saint John's Day."
And she entreated5 them: "When I am taken, let me die immediately without suffering long." And the Voices repeated that she would be taken and thus it must be.
And they added gently: "Be not troubled, be resigned. God will help thee."[348]
Saint John's Day was the 24th of June, in less than ten weeks. Many a time after that, Jeanne asked her saints at what hour she would be taken; but they did not tell her; and thus doubting she ceased to follow her own ideas and consulted the captains.[349]
On her way from Melun to Lagny-sur-Marne, in the month of May, she had to pass Corbeil. It was probably then, and in her company, that the two devout6 women from Lower Brittany, Pierronne and her younger sister in the spirit, were taken at Corbeil by the English.[350]
For eight months the town of Lagny had been subject to King Charles and governed by Messire Ambroise de Loré, who was energetically waging war against the English of Paris and elsewhere.[351] For the nonce Messire Ambroise de Loré was absent; but his lieutenant7
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craftsmen
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pretext
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traitor
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