Finally, from corporeal necessity, Joan was constrained to get up and take the dress." The official documents drawn up during the condemnation-trial contain quite a different account.

"On the 28th of May," it is there said, "eight of the judges who had taken part in the sentence [their names are given in the document, t.i.p.

454] betook themselves to Joan's prison, and seeing her clad in man's dress, 'which she had but just given up according to our order that she should resume woman's clothes, we asked her when and for what cause she had resumed this dress, and who had prevailed on her to do so.

Joan answered that it was of her own will, without any constraint from any one, and because she preferred that dress to woman's clothes.

To our question as to why she had made this change, she answered, that, being surrounded by men, man's dress was more suitable for her than woman's.