Better still, it afforded positive proof that these devils who had inspired such fear were miserable creatures, who might be entrapped like mice and smoked out like wasps in their nest.

Such unhoped-for good fortune was due to the Maid.

She had done everything, for without her nothing would have been done.

She it was, who, in ignorance wiser than the knowledge of captains and free-lances, had converted an idle skirmish into a serious attack and had won the victory by inspiring confidence.
[Footnote 1024: At the capture of the Saint-Loup bastion: _Number of _Number of French engaged._ French slain._ Journal du Siege 1,500 without counting nobles.
Letter of Charles VII 2 Morosini's correspondent 3,500 Eberhard Windecke 2 _Number of _Number of English engaged._ English slain._ Brother Pasquerel 100 picked men 100 slain or taken Jean d'Aulon all killed or taken G.Girault 120 killed or taken Charles VII's letter all killed or taken _Journal du siege_ 114 killed, 40 taken _Relation de la fete du 8 Mai_ From 120 to 140 all killed or taken Perceval de Cagny 3,000 all killed or taken _Chronique de la Pucelle_ 160 killed Monstrelet From 300 to 400 all killed or taken Eberhard Windecke 170 killed, 1,300 taken _Les Vigiles de Charles VII_ 60 killed, 22 taken] That very evening the magistrates sent workmen to Saint-Loup to demolish the captured fortifications.[1025] [Footnote 1025: The accounts of the fortress in _Journal du siege_, p.
284.] When at night she returned to her lodging, Jeanne told her chaplain that on the morrow, which was the day of the Ascension of Our Lord, she would keep the Festival by not wearing armour and by abstaining from fighting.

She commanded that no one should think of quitting the town, of attacking or making an assault, until he had first confessed.
She added that the men-at-arms must pay heed that no dissolute women followed in their train for fear lest God should cause them to be defeated on account of their sins.[1026] [Footnote 1026: _Trial_, vol.iii, p.107._Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp.